Painting Australian Flora

 

A field of yellow banksias


I love painting Australian flora, and I feel they particularly lend themselves to the loose style of watercolour painting. Above is "Banksias in Field".

I have made a YouTube video showing the process of painting some loose waratahs and banksias - seen below:

loose watercolour painting of waratahs and banksias in vase

Other Australian flora loose watercolour paintings include my proteas in a vase which is shown below. All of these paintings are available on my Square website for purchase.

loose watercolour painting of proteas in vase

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