Imaginary flowers from a nearby planet...

These flowers are found everywhere on A Nearby Planet. I call them Planetary Brights; as they sway and move, they make beautiful sounds that are pretty cool, too :-)

Planetary Brights - imaginary flowers from A Nearby Planet

With the wet...

come the flowers. A lot of rain the past few days. Hail yesterday morning - unusual.
Remy and I were on walkies and we spied a bit of color. This:

Time to investigate:

Remy really put his nose into it:

Okay, so he probably wasn't checking out the blossoms exactly :-)

An unplanned stop

I had planned to continue working on this piece but something said, "Stop", so I did.

More Planet flora

Close up:

Today was a great day

for getting outside with Remy:

He's a bit impatient - he wants to get on with 'walkies'!

Checking out the pear tree blossoms:

Blossoms everywhere!

But then there's the NWS winter storm watch for tomorrow evening: snow...

What a morning it has been...

it's the weather. The feeling of Spring. Windows open, typing this whilst listening to the birds singing away. Sigh. So lovely.
Imaginary spring flowers:

Imaginary spring flowers

Getting lost...

in the details:

Color/ texture

Texture

Translucency

Step back a bit and...

The "garden"

The persistence of...flowers :-)

I like working in my studio and occasionally glancing out the window at the blowing snow – it’s enjoyable because I’m inside happily painting away and the “weather” is outside.

So here’s what blossomed today:

They look a bit like flowers...

3-Step transformation

Give your blossoms a whole new...something.
 
1. Cut out.

2. Mount on foam core (or cardboard).

3. Hang.

Yay!

Moving blossoms from 2-D to 3-D came from Carla Sonheim's "Flower Crazy", the class I mentioned a few posts ago ( http://carlasonheim.com/flowercrazy.html ). The class was FUN and super messy - at least the way I did it!

Poor little dudes...

Snowstorm - quelle surprise. Cold days with gusting winds. So we have robins fluffing out their feathers to retain warmth. Look at these two:

Br-r-r-r.

Meanwhile, back in my studio, it still feels like Spring! More flower blossoms not nearly done. I plan to cut them out individually.

Crying out for pastels, charcoal, conte...

Carried away...

creating imaginary flower blossoms:

I had intended to work for a few minutes embellishing the watercolors I had left to dry. However, some time later when I figured I was done with this, I realized the sun was setting. Where did the time go? I just love it when I am working and I have no notion of time passing.

Imaginary blossoms.

So what do I think of the blossom study? Some of them work as blossoms and others are more from outer space :-)