20131017 - Flower

Here's another pen & ink with watercolor flower. I used Noodler's Ink 54th Massachusetts ink for the flower and Nooderler's Ink Black for the shadows on in the leaf litter on the ground.

With this flower, I decided to intentionally leave the leaf litter more of an impression than to shoot for realism. The intent is to show the flower as the primary focus (as it was in the camera) and having more substance than the background.

Not sure it came out all that well. I've been staring at it too long to have a good perspective on it.

Hope you enjoy this one. I know I enjoyed painting it. And my hats off to John Apps, who took the original photograph of the flower. It's quite striking.