Category Archives: Flowers
New Flower (October 7, 2019) – Autumn Crocus
….happy Birthday Dad!


stop all the clocks cut off the telephone poem
New Flower (October 5, 2019) – Daisy Fleabane
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New Flower (Sept. 26, 2019) – Marigolds
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New Flower (Sept. 24, 2019) – Black Eyed Susans
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Adding Collage to Crazy Flowers
….lesson 4 and 5 of Carla Sonheim’s ‘Flower Crazy 2’ class
In the next two lessons we were encouraged to make some abstract flower shapes on Swedish tissue paper using water colour and chalk markers. I didn’t have Swedish tissue so I used a tissue like Japanese paper that I had on hand. Here are the flowers I created, first with the chalk markers and then the watercolour paints.
Then using some of the techniques learned so far I created a new abstract floral painting and layered the collage pieces on top using a mat gel medium. Once the medium was dry I added some shading using pencil and highlighted area with white ink.
Five Small Paintings
….in lesson three after making stamps from a kneadable eraser
After playing with my homemade stamp I proceeded to create a bunch of small paintings using all the techniques taught by Carla Sonheim in Crazy Flowers 2, up to this point; watercolour scraping, abstract flowers using a Pilot Pen, mark making with unusual tools and stamps made from a kneadable eraser.
The lesson only wanted three paintings but I got a little carried away and did five. The first on is a bit busy but I quite like the rest.
New Flower (Sept. 17, 2019) – Obedient Plant
Eraser Stamping
….another interesting technique from Carla Sonheim’s ‘Crazy Flowers 2’ lessons
Instead of buying expensive stamps you can make stamps from kneadable erasers. Simply knead the eraser into a tube or cone shape and flatten one end till it’s about the size of a quarter. Then press the flat surface into something with texture or add marks with a pointy tool or the edge of a knife.

Pick up some ink from a stamp pad and try it on a scrap piece of paper first. You can play around with ghost printing and overlapping colours. Here is my sample sheet of flowers made using this technique.
The next assignment is to use all the techniques taught so far and create three small painting of abstract flowers.













