All of these were drawn while looking at the garden in my front yard this summer. I am aware of color all day; I think about it and comment on it and watch it. But I'm not very comfortable painting it. Pastels help me be freer with color, but I am never as pleased with pastel drawings as I am with paintings. I sketch to reduce flowers to shapes - so I can understand them and put them on canvas.As I wrote that I realized I am separating out the most important element and then expecting myself to reapply it without a guide - when I know that my best work comes from spontaneity and observation.
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