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flowers shari blaukopf s sketchbook shari blaukopf s sketchbook home online classes book press art materials workshops paintings about shari blaukopf contact me zinnias posted july 31 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags bouquet flowers watercolour zinnias 27 comments my favourite thing this summer season is going to the u pick garden when i collect my weekly csa farmer basket at ferme tournesol this year the zinnias have been terrific such a variety of different shapes and bright colours for me to paint for this summer bouquet i used a palette that i have filled with bright holbein reds pinks and oranges that were just right for this bouquet i am still waiting for my scanner cable but it should arrive tonight one of the things i like about scanned watercolours is that i don t pick up the paper texture like i do with a photo but for now this will suffice painted on a block of millford paper alison s daffodils posted may 11 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags bouquet daffodils flowers watercolour 4 comments i am very grateful to my friend alison when she read that i couldn t find daffodils at the store she picked an amazing bouquet from her own garden and went out of her way to bring it to me alison is the best gardener that i know and she s especially skilled at growing bulbs and spring flowers lucky me my bouquet is far more interesting than what i would have picked up at a store since it s impossible to get dark values with yellow i tried to get variety in colour temperature i used all the yellows i have on my palette lemon yellow greenish and cool hansa yellow medium a primary yellow in the middle of the other two and new gamboge a very orange yellow for the orange edges of the centres of the flower i added a bit of quinacridone coral painted in my sketchbook on saunders waterford paper 10 x 11 ten tulips posted may 6 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags flowers tulips watercolour 15 comments my reward for suffering through some miserable dental work was flowers through the freezing and the drilling and the general discomfort of the whole thing all i could think about was flowers the ones i was going to buy for myself at the florist shop downstairs from the dentist s office i was really hoping for daffodils but i guess the season is over at least at that shop i must have missed it when i was in vietnam so i bought some yellow tulips instead the florist had just received the flowers from her supplier when i arrived in the shop mouth half frozen i mumbled my request to her and made my way home to paint them in a day or two the flowers will open and the leaves will unfold but in that moment there was something beautiful about the compact form of the ten tulips wrapped tightly wrapped together waiting for me to draw them hydrangeas in four colours posted november 2 2025 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags flowers hydrangeas watercolour flowers 22 comments besides watching baseball this was the weekend to finish up the garden cleanup i had a list of things that needed to be done mainly cutting down perennials and shrubs the biggest of the tasks on my list was to trim the hydrangeas as i trimmed and discarded the cuttings i noticed the beautiful fading colours of each of the different varieties i set aside one branch from each plant and when i was done my reward was to paint them you don t need many colours to paint faded blooms for these hydrangeas i chose carmine and raw sienna for the flowers and sap green and payne s grey for the leaves i love the brownish hues you get when you mix green and red together so that was my mix for the darks this was a great warm up exercise for my one day plants and flowers in your sketchbook workshop in hudson quebec coming up this week this session is full but i m holding another one on november 20th and i have a few spots left if you are interested drop me a line from alison s garden posted july 1 2025 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags bouquet coloured pencil flowers neocolor 12 comments happy canada day i usually choose some red flowers to paint on july 1 but this bouquet from alison s garden was just too beautiful to pass up i can t name everything that s in here but it s exactly the kind of arrangement i love a little wild looking and different from every angle thank you for thinking of me alison since i haven t even unpacked my watercolours yet lots of garden projects to catch up on at my house i decided to work in water soluble pencils i drew on a sheet of hp paper with a green pencil and then filled in with both coloured pencils and neocolor sticks from caran d ache at the end i touched the wet brush to a few areas but mostly it s just pencil scribbles and if i have time before the bouquet fades i may just unpack my palette and try it in watercolour a few in blue posted may 9 2025 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags chania crete flower pots flowers greece plein air watercolour pots watercolour 19 comments if you read the last issue of my newsletter the wheelbarrow you ve probably already seen this little blue wheelbarrow it s one that my husband spotted tucked away in a corner of the botanical park and gardens of crete it was so perfectly rusty and of course so perfectly blue that i had to sketch it and add it to my collection of wheelbarrow sketches a few people asked what blue i used to paint this it was definitely a holbein pigment because during this trip i was testing out that brand in my two palettes but it wasn t one single colour i likely used a combination of turquoise horizon blue and cerulean blue mixed in with a little bit of burnt sienna of course i was fascinated by the rows of potted plants that people place outside their doors in the narrow streets of chania and of course by the shadow patterns their shapes create on many occasions i saw these pots as well as many others being lovingly tended by their owners this particular road was not much wider than the width of one car but i set up my stool against the opposite wall and managed to wedge my easel in there too not long after i started to paint a white van pulled into that narrow space totally blocking my view and almost knocking over my easel i was ready to pack up my gear and finish my painting indoors when a woman emerged from a door next to me i understand a few words of greek but language was not necessary in this instance i understood from her gestures that she was telling the driver to move his van so that i could paint with smiles of appreciation and my best efcharistó to both the driver and the woman i happily finished my painting and moved on yellow plus grey makes green posted march 6 2025 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags bouquet flowers 30 comments this is the valentine s day bouquet that keeps on giving i received it on february 14th and it s still beautiful three weeks later a little shrivelled i ll admit but highly sketchable the flowers come from a florist unlike my usual grocery store blooms which has no doubt contributed to their longevity the drooping and curling shapes of this bouquet are still so beautiful i felt that i couldn t do them justice with a loose painting instead i chose to draw their complex forms on hot press paper using a water soluble orange marker and then painted with watercolour using a mix of payne s grey and lemon yellow for the fading foliage i like this mix for grey greens and you can get some great darks with it too yesterday s bouquet today s ink posted february 15 2025 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags bouquet flowers ink drawing 25 comments last month one of my students let me try her lamy pen that had been filled with de atramentis pipe tobacco brown ink i couldn t detect the fragrance of the ink but i did love the way the ink lines dissolved when you hit them with a little clear water i tried to find the ink from my local suppliers but no luck so today i headed downtown to the pen shop and i bought some diamine ancient copper ink it s not quite as brown as the tobacco ink but besides having a beautiful name it has other qualities that are quite wonderful it has a deep orange pink tone that is perfect for the pale pink amaryllis that are the stars of this bouquet and what i like about it is that the more you go over the lines with your brush the more they dissolve until you have lost them altogether not all water soluble inks do that the final sketch looks like part painting part ink drawing tomorrow i ll experiment further with this i ll draw with copper ink and paint on top of that with watercolour if the results are decent i ll post that drawing too sad little bouquet posted august 25 2024 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags bouquet flowers sketchbook watercolour sketch 26 comments this started off as a sad big bouquet too many uninteresting leaves and too few flowers then it flopped and shrivelled and i trimmed it down to a sad little bouquet but sometimes these arrangements are more fun to sketch for example the drooping flowers provide movement the single red zinnia gives it a focus and the preponderance of leaves gives it a unity of colour all importance design elements in a sketch despite the sad character of this grouping i will miss the wildness of summer flowers when autumn rolls around and i have to resort to grocery store bouquets again wilted in the window posted may 20 2024 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags flowers tulips watercolour pencils 13 comments i love the movement of wilted tulips and these pink ones on my window sill were particularly nice today i don t think they appreciate the warm weather we re having and they won t last long to capture them i grabbed a sheet of hot press paper and all the water soluble pencils i could find in my studio i used neocolor ii aquarelle sticks caran d ache museum aquarelle pencils and both thick and thin faber castell albrecht durer watercolour pencils it s been a long time since i ve played with coloured pencils but it was fun to experiment with some different tools i used the pencils in several ways i drew on dry paper and then wet the pencil lines i wet the paper and drew into it and i also dipped the pencils in water and drew with them i find it hard to blend watercolour pencils so instead i did a bit of layering when i didn t have the right colour i hope to do more playing with materials this summer and will be sharing it here 4 inspiring courses 1 full length demo my essential watercolour palette demo strengthen your skills 3 courses plus 1 demo rugged rocks and sea online course follow my blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow join 10 4k other subscribers wet in wet blooms an online course behind the palms a tropical online course sketching markets online course sketch architecture with me 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