Spring flowers: magnolias, camelias, cherry blossoms and peony

Ink and watercolor on fabriano paper, A3(2021)

                             

Arbres fleuris

Ce printemps j'ai photographié et j'ai peint les arbres qui fleurissaient dans les rues de la ville. Cerisier, prunier, amandier, pommier, etc. Voici une peinture qui réunit plusieurs de ces arbres en fleur. 

Printemps, arbres fleuris, 40cmx50cm, aquarelle, 2017.

Blossomed trees

With the arrival of the Spring I get a fever of blossomed trees. Every year I try to do a few paintings on this subject. They are so beautiful but it’s difficult to paint because the flowers are small and the colours are so delicate that it’s really hard to touch nature’s perfection with the painting. Anyway I try.

 I started with the drawings and a few little works.

 This painting was an opportunity to change the technique a little bit: now I use a pen to do the drawing first. 

 Then I paint the flowers with watercolours as usual. 

This is the result without background. I haven’t planned the composition too much this time, I just lay it out as I paint based on different drawings I’ve done.

 Finally I add the background using an ink pen (Pentel) and normal ink as well.

Early Spring flowers

This is my first article in English. I hope this is better for everybody who wants to read this blog! 

I made a series of flowers blooming at the beginning of the Spring. I saw these flowers and I photographed them! 

Crocus, 20x20cm

Primroses, 20x20cm

Anemone, 15x15cm

Magnolia, 20x20cm.

Little Iris, 18x23cm.

My desk.

Cherry blossom.

Then I decided to do blossomed trees, but my first try wasn't as I expected. So I decided to change the technique and used ink pen (Micron) for the drawing because there are so many little details! Here are the results of this new research. 

Apple blossom

Draw with pen. 

 Pen and watercolor.