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Fiona Phipps

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I wish I had the patience to paint flowers, I wouldn’t be able to resist the papery quality of these poppies. If anyone would like to use the photos for painting subjects,  feel free.

Denise Cat

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They are gorgeous Fiona, I might just have to do another poppy painting looking at these.

Fiona Phipps

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You can perhaps make the image larger on your computer in some way Denise, but it may effect the quality, I only took them on my phone. I might have a go myself!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I think both of you would make a great job of painting them and it would be very interesting to see the different styles etc, Go for it Fiona and Denise .
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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These are poppies of course, but not as I recognize them - there are many varieties, in a range of gorgeous colours, but it's the blood red ones that I like - even though the colour is so strong it can ruin your painting in five minutes.  Fabulous flowers, though, in all of their manifestations - memo to self: paint more poppies!   Is the real challenge though, painting pansies?  How do you get their fantastic depth of colour with mere paint?  

Fiona Phipps

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How about you having a go also Paul?  Robert, I believe they are Meconopsis  Cambrica ….Welsh Poppy. I also have the blood red ones but this year they are far from flowering at the moment.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Might have a go Fiona here are some Poppy’s  growing in my garden .

Fiona Phipps

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These are gorgeous Paul!   I’m waiting for the opium poppies in my garden to flower…..everything is so late this year! I never know what they will be like until they flower because of the cross pollination……exciting!   
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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These are a perennial poppy give to me years ago by a late neighbour.  Problem is the can take over the garden  the heads are the size of a side plate and can be a bit bigger.  The seed heads are very large but don’t contain seeds . Hope you will do a painting of your opium poopies when they are out , my poppies are alongside  foxglove and delphinium.
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Alan Beresford

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what lovely photos of poppies and flowers. I have attempted Fiona s Welsh poppies, think I should have added a back ground.
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Mia Ketels

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Such wonderful photo's of one of my favourite flowers. I was so inspired by one of Paul's pictures, I had to sketch it. No colour but I hope I caught the papery texture of it. :) Mia
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Marjorie Firth

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Paul’s poppies, couldn’t resist. This is on Belle Arti canvas pad, it’s actual canvas and each page is gummed down. Didn’t quite have the vibrant red.
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