Painting Gerberas in Watercolours

Because we had the Annual General meeting of our association Le Hangar before the Aquarellistas got together, ànd because I just returned from a weekend in Amsterdam, we chose a simple subject: Gerberas. They are straightforward flowers, the bigger, colourful sisters of the daisy. And we all loved it! There were all kinds of variations as you can see below:

   
Wonderful in all respects, this one, painted by Martine! The colours, the contrasts, the background, It is all so well done...

The other true Gerbera was painted by Charlie. Usually I am told that my photos are better than the original, but here that is definitely not the case, the original is much better. So sorry!


Glen brought actual flowers!! and created this sweet little still life from it. She also studied daisies...

And she finished with a lovely Morning Glory - The white variety! A production for a couple of weeks, which is good because she will be travelling for some time...

In the middle of all that Gerbera painting, Judith (who actually also felt somewhat inspired by the subject, see below) suddenly found the perfect gesture. It was breathtaking - I tried to make a video of it drying, but that is literally watching paint dry for an hour. It was much more exciting to see it happening. I summarize it with the double-picture above. And this is how it ended up looking, especially notice the lovely borders: 

 

And Judith also created some wild 'crazy paintings' (© Charlie) that had Gerbera colours in them...

Laura's beautiful wedding painting suffered an irreparable blow of a blue ink-stripe over the bride's face. What a pity! But hero as she is, she will start over in good Aqarellista tradition. She learnt from it and the next version will be much faster.

And last but not least, Martine's cabbage now finished. It is Absolutely Fabulous!
There was also a cabbage from Michele our correspondent in Bretagne - it has disappeared and I will try to get it again from her!

That was it folks! A pleasure as always and watch this space for more...