The Heirloom Artisan Market 2016

I'm late in sharing this, but this is where I was on Saturday!

My Show-Going Orchids

That last one won the ribbon.

I hope I can do better than that next year!

This one's for you, Fresh!

In my last post I was wondering whether I should stick to my favorite medium for orchids - watercolors - or try doing some in my other favorite medium - acrylics - with which I've never painted orchids.  My dear blog follower Fresh suggested I just have a go at it, so I did!  Here's looking at you, kid!

This little chunky canvas was sitting around that the BabyBot and I had previously covered in pages from a vintage, actually antique, book, a deliciously decrepit copy of The Canada Book of Prose And Verse, published in 1927.  I would have hated to tear sheets from this book if it hadn't already been falling apart.

So, anyhow, there's a story there by Archer Wallace, called The Great Physician, and it contains a verse with the line "I have loved no darkness".   It was entirely by chance that I had these lines right on top, so that's the part I left unpainted.  It just seemed appropriate.

I think it came it came out pretty decent - but I hope the next one is better!

Oh, and I forgot this one...

Now I'll have to choose which style to go with for the NROS - all five pieces should go together, I think, or not necessary?

Metamorphosis

yes
I
had
to
do
something with my
orchid

collage

get it
in
my
shop

Finally some orchids

Couldn't get around to painting the orchids so I left them blank and painted the background instead.

I
like
it
this
way!