Caroline's Studio: flowers

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12 September 2011

Between red and yellow

Between red and yellow lies the colour orange. Now, in the main, I'm not overly fond of this colour - I'd definitely not choose to wear it, accessorize or paint my walls with it, but I love the flamboyant orange-hued tropical flowers I see around me here in Malaysia!

Whilst out walking on Friday, I found a sizzling selection of blooms in this colour range.

How about these? Three stunning Spathodea campanulata blooms from the Flame of the Forest, or African Tulip Tree. I found a mass of these glowing like embers beneath the tree.

This amazing spidery bloom is Gloriosa superba otherwise known as Climbing, or Flame Lily.

And finally a quartet of tropical orange beauties from the archives!

Gorgeous or what?

29 August 2011

Last of the summer photos and some recycled illustrations

Pink'nfrilly

Gorgeous flowers en masse at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

I've gathered together the last photos from my summer holiday and made some more montages. I decided to accompany these with some sketchbook bits and pieces, some of which I've shown before, but most of which have had something new added for the occasion!

'Sweetpeas' watercolour ©Caroline Soer

Sorry that the quality of this image isn't very good. I wanted to include it as sweetpeas are such lovely frilly flowers! It's taken from a larger watercolour painting behind glass. I painted this many years ago - the flowers were from my Mum's garden ... I can smell that heavenly scent now! I've added a couple of lines from a poem by John Keats and a digital pastel colour detail.

'Tango' watercolour with collage©Caroline Soer

These roses from a beautiful bouquet were quickly rendered in watercolour in my sketchbook. Later, for an Illustration Friday project, I teamed them with a pair of my little folded butterflies. Today I added a coordinating border made from digital colour swatches.

Just feast your eyes on these luscious summer berries! Click if you want more!

Cherries - watercolour ©Caroline Soer

Sometimes paintings just don't go according to plan! This illustration is something salvaged from one such occasion! I decoupaged the image of cherries onto another piece of watercolour paper and added a border digitally from colour swatches.

'Cherry pairs' watercolour ©Caroline Soer

Cherries from a sketchbook I used on holiday in Provence couple of years ago.

Part 2 to follow later!

14 August 2011

Floral swatches

More flower pics with colour swatches from the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

12 April 2011

Playtime!

I came across this stunning peacock in my Flickr files today and had fun making a photo mosaic.

And another of the yellow and white flowers in my hillview garden

And then another - got hooked on playing with colour!

and shape!

Last two mosaics are made up of pics I took at the fabulous Four Seasons Hotel Spa in Langkawi.

4 April 2011

In my garden

My garden is full of pinkness!

I put together these montages with Big Huge Labs Mosaic Maker.

Yellowness coming soon!

19 November 2010

Louisa's Wedding Part I

I can hardly believe that our daughter's wedding was a week ago yesterday!

Louisa - still single on her hen night!

Louisa and fiance Matt - footloose and fancy free last year in Singapore!

The wedding was held on the 12th of November. What a wonderful day it was! The weather was glorious - as you would expect in Dubai - though it had actually been quite cloudy during the week leading up to the wedding and with a downpour two days before you can imagine the ripple of panic a few spots of rain caused on the morning! Fortunately, the shower didn't last more than a minute or so ... we could breathe again and the rest of the day was perfect!

So, here we go! These are mostly my own pics. I discovered it was quite difficult to focus on the job whilst being so involved in the process and I also nabbed a couple from facebook - thanks Sharon! I've divided the whole into two posts as there are so many photos! Second part to follow soon and I'll look forward to sharing a few of the official photos in a couple of weeks or so.

The Jumeirah Beach Hotel

Louisa and two of her bridesmaids stayed the night before the wedding in a beautiful villa here. The bride and groom also spent their wedding night here :)