roots
tradescantia virginiana, it's like a weed, having *roots* all over the place, but i love it.. a pity though i can't get that sparkling purplish blue..
posted by vfm4 at 9/06/2005
posted by vfm4 at 9/06/2005
15 Comments:
Nice work, sweet and soft !
nice water color flower!
you might be right that it might be lacking a tiny bit of spark but it is nice watercolor job already
I love the technique you used to create the flower. I wonder if you had put more yellow in the leaves and lightened the background...perhaps you would have brought out the blue more. Although, if you had not mentioned it, I would have liked this as a rainy day kind of painting...quiet and a bit somber, but still very lovely.
ah hell, i do say that "weeds" are often the prettiest "roots" in the world! they just happen to take over everything else you'd like to cultivate beside them:( anyway, lovely illo
cheers,
kerry
Lovely!
Lovely again!!
Aaaiieee! That stuff is all root! Every joint in it sprouts - if you drop a bit walking across the lawn (after pulling it out) it grows there! In Australia it's called "wandering Jew," but not as a pejorative term - it used to be passed between people as a gift.
We have a creek in the back garden and it can grow so much it blocks it up at times. It smothers the ground in the bush and grows up through the shrubs.
Does your version really have purple flowers (ours only has white)? There's also morning glory, which grows similarly and has big purple flowers.
We're allergic to this plant after pulling out so much of it!
Anyway, the triangular structure of your well-executed watercolour, with the flowers at centre, works really well and shows it can be aesthetic after all...
Cheers,
Ian T.
(quietly reaches for weeding fork) ;)
Ian: it really has purple to blue flowers depending if they're in the shade or sun.. the painting is about real size, so if you would print it 8 x 10,5 cm which is a little more than 3 x 4 inch, you'd know the size of the flowers... and i know it's a terrible weed but, well... :)
a weeding fork wouldn't help you here, it grows between the pavement... don't even want to look underneath... :)
Very pretty and nice softness to it!
will have to look for these flowers.
So sweet and pretty. =^..^=
I had these try to take over my garden, I know what an invader it is. But the flowers are a beautiful color and you've captured that!
Lovely watercolor!
OH NO! Wandering dew? Rip it OUT!
hi
nice watercolor here, great job
patty
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