Bumble bee by Louise Bougourd

Comments

Beautiful use of watercolour.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Sun 27 Mar 12:45:28

I could at one time, name most of the bumblebees by their latin name....I'm a bit rusty these days. I recognise this as a super little study though.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sun 27 Mar 15:38:03

Beautifully painted, Louise.

Posted by Jenny Harris on Sun 27 Mar 15:45:13

Fantastic!

Posted by Satu Vartiainen on Sun 27 Mar 17:01:06

I love the looseness of this, and it takes great skill to retain the shape and form of the subject as you have. Nice work Louise!

Posted by Paul Spilsbury on Sun 27 Mar 17:42:07

Beautiful!!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sun 27 Mar 19:52:30

Beautifully done - and they are getting more rare, which will be a huge loss to us if they go altogether: we still have a fair number of bees down here in the far south of England, but nowhere near as many as there were - which is sadly true of birds as well.

Posted by Robert Jones, Napa on Sun 27 Mar 20:00:39

Just to say I have seen quite a few bumble bees already in Derbyshire which was very pleasing. Not today though as its snowing!

Posted by Carole Swingler on Mon 28 Mar 08:21:57

Lovely and loose, very impressive.

Posted by Paul Miles on Mon 28 Mar 10:43:52

Very skilled work with the medium. A member of our art club paints nothing else but all the species of bees, actual size in watercolour on calf vellum. Something I could never do even as a young slow hand man.

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Mon 28 Mar 11:34:32