@gardnerbotanical.bsky.social
Botanical Artist Art celebrating plant life 🌿 www.gardnerbotanical.com
The stone wall background is gradually appearing.
08.02.2025 23:14 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For this fluffy plant, Great Mullein, I am using three Sennelier watercolours: 🔵Pthalocyanine Blue
🟡Lemon Yellow
🔴Rose Madder Lake
It’s fun to mix from a limited palette and I end up using a wider range of shades and tones with this method of colour mixing. How do you mix yours? 🌀🔆❓
Partial view of a large leaf in light browns painted propped on easel. A few fairy-lights twinkle in the background.
Sepia tones in oils today.
#botanicaloilpainter
Calling #Rheum geeks! Horticulturalists, botanists, taxonomists… Advice sought on locating specimens to view and background info on classification. Looking for representative examples from each of the five Sections of the Rheum genus.
#rheumplant
#planttaxonomy
#botanicalillustration
The flaming purple-orange underside of a large Rheum palmatum leaf is held aloft with the sunlight filtering through to green top-side of another enormous leaf below. To the left rear of the image a large red-purple leaf bud emerges from the base of the plant, looming like a tower and casting shadow over the lower leaf. This sits above a chipped bark mulch in the grounds of the garden at RHS Bridgewater.
Planning is vital. I’ve been observing the growth cycle of Rheum palmatum in the walled garden of #RHSbridgewater throughout the year. Measurements, sketches, photos, background reading.
It is almost time to pick up the brushes!
#worththewait
#botanicalartist
#rheumpalmatum
Watercolour painting of a nineteen pointed holly leaf with a shiny light reflective surface.
The days shorten but the sun casts a magical glow. Here, just finished, is a holly leaf study (Ilex aquifolium) in watercolour, based on leaves from the magnificent hollies growing in my local park. I’ve called this painting ‘Nineteen Points’.
01.12.2024 16:53 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The artists brush poised over the watercolour painting of a 19 pointed holly leaf with dark greens and bright reflected highlights.
More detail, more layers…
22.11.2024 12:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the autumn edition of the SBA magazine there is a lovely “Meet the Council” Q&A featuring myself, @patriciagherase.bsky.social @gardnerbotanical.bsky.social and Lesley Hall.
Our “Ruby” issue is full of stunning ruby themed artworks and a sneak peak into our planned 40th anniversary celebrations.
Partially completed watercolour painting of a single holly leaf with 19 prickly points
Today’s work in progress: a simple holly leaf study in watercolour. Lots more layers to add. I keep humming Xmas tunes!
19.11.2024 16:08 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Next on my reading list… 📚
19.11.2024 16:00 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pale pink dahlia flower with red stripes on inner petals on black background. A bumble bee sits at the flower’s yellow centre feeding on nectar. The flower has a dark purple stem with two leaves and a bright green bud, ready to burst.
Hello, first post!
Lovely to see a new community blooming here. I’m an artist who specialises in painting botanical subjects in oil and watercolour. Here’s my Dahlia with Buff-tailed Bumble Bee, painted in oils.
