Colorado Alpine Flower Three colorado watercolors

watercolors

I loved juxtaposing the hard-edged architectural rectangles with the loose fluid drips

Nature Medley Two is the second of a pair of companion paintings

The flowers from my Colorado garden have turned into seed pods

Colorado Alpine Flower Three colorado watercolorsCyanotype on watercolor paper 10 x 8 on paper, surrounded with white 14 x 11 acid free mat board. Alpine Flower One is an original cyanotype on archival watercolor paper. These hardy perennials grow in my Colorado high alpine garden. I love them both for their cone shaped flowers that turn into hundreds of little seeds at the season's end. The deer hate them, so they don't eat them either, another plus! Cyanotypes are one of photographys oldest