Oriental Poppy (Patty's Plum?) by Jacki Stokes

Jacki this is beautiful, really striking. I love the colours, the dark and the light. Excellent work

I have signed in to congratulate you on this lovely piece of work. Striking, but delicate too.

P.S Ive just browsed through the rest of your work, I just love the way you do your backgrounds. Are some of them done with clingfilm?

Beautiful Jacki, super highlights on the petals.

Thank you so much Hazel, Sue and Fiona for your lovely comments - very much appreciated: it's always great to get positive feedback, particularly when it's from your fellow artists. Yes Sue, I do use clingfilm in some of my backgrounds. I also use acrylic ink if I'm not too fussed about wanting to call it a pure watercolour. I occassionally use salt, but as I'm sure you know, the results can be amazing at best and at worst very unpredictable indeed! it's all fun though isn't it, and I'm having a great time painting my watercolours - it's such an exciting medium.

In reality, these poppies appear one day and (certainly where I live) disappear the day after as the sea wind hits them. But they're beautiful while they're with us, and this is a beautiful painting.

Just beautiful, georgeous flower - is it Patty's Plum though, mine is a more subdued pink, this is glowing. A lovely painting!

Wonderful contrasts of light and dark. Beautiful colours. Great depth.

Beautiful painting

Brilliant painting, love poppies. I also love the background.

Georgeous its like a big bowl of strawberry moussee with blueberry sauce, i love poppies and yours is set off beautifully by its background.Christine is right pattys plum is a darker faded claret this is more likely helen elizabeth, but what is in axname when you look as good as this.

How gorgeous is that poppy! Zingy colours and so beautifully painted.

I'm overwhelmed by all your lovely comments. Thank you so much! They are such beautiful flowers that you can't help but be inspired by them, but as you say Robert, particularly this "summer", the petals were blown away just hours after they opened.