Showing posts with label Painting Laburnum anagyroides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Painting Laburnum anagyroides. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Challenges! Painting the Laburnum

Laburnum anagyroides painting by Shevaun Doherty
Laburnum anagyroides on natural calf vellum © Shevaun Doherty 2015
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe

Sometimes we sail through life like a ship on a calm sea, and at other times, everything seems to come at once- a veritable maelstrom of appointments, deadlines, exams, exhibitions and meetings. I’ve been channelling my inner Wonder Woman recently, and rather than allowing everything to overwhelm me, facing my challenges one at a time.
I can do this!

A plentiful supply of fresh flowers is a must for a complex painting such as this. Okay, perhaps I was a little too enthusiastic!
Right at the top of my To-do list has been the laburnum. Not only did I have a deadline that was looming with ever increasing urgency, but the flowers were blooming and finishing before my eyes!

Laburnum painting Shevaun Doherty
Plant, vellum, I'm all set to go!