Category: photographs

Painting and a Peek

Made some headway on this watercolor painting yesterday. Slowly added in the darks so I don’t go crazy and ruin it.  Taking photographs in between painting sessions helps me see where I’m going with it.  It’s as if I’m stepping away from the work and squinting at it to see where to go next.  I like it!  If I can keep a light hand on it we should be fine.  I’d like to avoid disaster if it’s at all possible.

Oh, by the way, here’s a little peek at the finished thing.  I can’t say any more about it except that it’s knitted and it’s this color that you see.  We’ll discuss at a later date.  There’s too much to say and I have to stop now before I shoot my mouth off.  The time will come and we’ll dish, but not until I say so.

Yeah, I like suspense, too.

Word for Wednesday is Wow

So, with the idea to tweak these photos from a lovely commenter from yesterday’s post, here they are.  This is the way the hydrangeas were meant to be seen!  And yes the word is WOW! 

I forgot all about the image adjusting program on the computer and was relying on the camera.  I guess I just felt like ranting.  Sometimes I think my monitor is not calibrated correctly and my photos might be too dark.  But hey, who cares?  Right now I am in heaven looking at the color of these petals!  Yes, sir.  This is how they’re supposed to look. 

Ideas are running through my head now.  Which to paint first?  Yippee!

Fun with Photos, Not

There he is again.  The yellow goldfinch that likes to come by my pink coneflowers, or echinacea, flew in yesterday afternoon to eat some seeds.  These birds are so skittish they won’t let me peek at them from my kitchen door.  I grabbed my camera soon as I saw this one and snapped this picture from the kitchen window, through the screen.  It’s the best I could do to capture the bird.  The Mr. gets so excited to hear these birds were here.  He raises finches and canaries, but this one is special.  What a beautiful color he is!
Yesterday I had to clip these huge hydrangea because some animal must have fallen on the branches and many were broken.  I gathered some and arranged then in a vase on my patio table.  They are stunning.  This morning as I was writing my Morning Pages, yes I’m still doing that, don’t ask anything else, I had the impulse to take a couple of photos to remember the deep blue color.  The edges of the petals were trimmed in a teal green and were very striking.
This photo looks nothing like the flowers!  I couldn’t get the camera to darken so the true blue could show.  Nope, nothing I do would allow me to capture the colors of these flowers.  Ok, whatever.  I tried every angle and the automatic camera kept lightening the picture.  Thanks alot.

This is not what the hydrangea look like at all.  I guess it’s going to be a fun day so far if this is how my morning started out.