Here’s the pink amaryllis a fourth time. The first time, it was only a bud. See “This bud’s for you” in Brenda’s Gallery 100 in the Artworks collection on this web site. Simply clicking here will take you there. Here again, is the result of my attempt to bring some life into the pink amaryllis. I enjoyed watching the watercolor do its own thing — dripping and melding into its adjacent colors. This brings me back to a saying I have, Watercolor’s like a horse, a beautiful animal, but it is only when you set it free, out of its corral, that you can see its full beauty emerge.

In hopes of bringing my pink amaryllis more luminosity than a white background was giving me, I explored a different approach. Much lifting was done here, a watercolor technique that is done by actually “lifting” paint out of a darker background of color. More information about the painting, including pricing, can be found in the Original Watercolors Collection of this web site.

Amaryllis Countdown. Day 1.
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