sunshine Orange Poppies

sunshine Orange Poppies
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This is really good !

Thanks Richard! There are little white hairs on the leaves......gel pen covered that nicely too...

Lovely painting, Joy.

Beautiful vibrant poppies.

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17/07/2018
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On one of my walks in our neighborhood, I found these poppies growing. The sun was falling on them - I took one home with me and placed it in a vase. The next morning while eating breakfast the light was illuminating it, so I quickly got out my brush pens and water brush..... This took me three days - a flower a day, in a different pose..... I used white gel pen to put in highlights, and by going over that with waterbrush, the colors gently softened the harshness of the white..... succcess!

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Joy Bjork

I am from the State of New Jersey, USA, and from 1996 have lived in Sweden 27 years with my husband Anders. I am mainly a self-taught artist - meaning I have read books, magazines and learned from other artists. I also completed a semester at a Masters Art school in Stockholm. I want to…

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