A floral surprise

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I sometimes drop paint into water but I never get results like this. Sorry to hear about your health problems last summer. It's amazing how many people start to enjoy life after have trauma in their lives. Enjoy your art and don't forget to share them with us Nancy.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Mon 18 Apr 09:50:51

Beautiful quality Nancy

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Mon 18 Apr 12:11:23

Thank you so much Dennis and Adele,( my health has definitely improved!) [ the opera pink on top of some violet is awfully hot in the center.....it is just an experiment....It lifts my spirits on dull days or rainy ones....]

Posted by Nancy Farrar Coughlin on Tue 19 Apr 07:35:22

This is lovely Nancy...your previous work inspired me to have a go at loose washes but haven't achieved anything worth showing yet!

Posted by Sylvia Pawson on Tue 19 Apr 14:24:37

Thanks Sylvia, happy to read you are trying loose washes! keep experimenting and do share :)

Posted by Nancy Farrar Coughlin on Tue 19 Apr 17:15:20

This is a little more brilliant and intense in color than the original, sorry for adjusting the saturation too much to compensate for my low light in photographing it.

Posted by Nancy Farrar Coughlin on Tue 10 May 09:19:01

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18/04/2016

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After a recent workshop with Jean Haines, here in Seattle, I have been dropping paint on wet paper, and using lots of water to let the colors flow....this is just an experiment. Fun, and loose. Then I saw a few round blossoms, flowers inside, and created a little definition....

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Nancy Farrar Coughlin

I have recently escaped to the coast, to Grays Harbor in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. I love nature, being outdoors, the ocean as well as the woods. I am grateful for life, after a ruptured appendix and a year of healing recently; I am treasuring every day! It was time to move…

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