chasing magnolias

My life is a perpetual mad scramble.  Help, anyone?  And: the magnolias are blooming like crazy right now, and I have a small window of time to shoot pictures of them to use as source material for my watercolors, so I've been out with the camera most days, stocking up on pictures and striking while the iron is hot.  The magnolia buds are so creaturely that I can barely stand it. 

 

They remind me of some old wall drawings of mine:

So I'm sort of going overboard with the gathering of source material, but with the sudden warm and sunny weather still a novelty, I have an easy excuse to be outside.

I am finishing up a watercolor which I hope to post by the end of the week.

And, finally, thank you so much for all the positive feedback about my bird heart print, and my show in Seattle, and so forth.  It certainly makes my life as an artist a lot more rewarding.

Comments

[nina]

oh! I don't think I had ever seen the above detail /picture with the goat. I love how flowers masks the goats face. Exquisite!

[Esti]

Your relation towards magnolias, your exquisite view, really impress me.