6 - 6 - 15 ... painting again

But

before I started again on my small paintings

I had to work on the felting - exchange :

namely a composition of all the pieces

that were send to me during the whole year.

I hadn't succeeded doing so with the exchange

of the previous year, with my "sunny" theme.

This time it was a bit easier

because I asked for 

"a red piece that could be hung" 

I fixed two stumps of old Buddleja wood together

and hung the pieces on the branches.

(if you want to see all the different pieces up close :

just click on the label felting-exchange in the sidebar)

With that task literally out of the way

(and in the mail)

I could go back to my paintings.

There are still two really small one that are 

in their first stage, and I'm still thinking how to continue.

So I took another old canvas

and started hiding what I painted some years ago under a new layer of paint,

and I just love to do an underpainting of red(s). 

Then another layer and rub till some of the red is back.

And once more : stenciling and printing

(the first layers of it, that is !)

Because I wanted to make a big bird,

I made a template of one out of heavy drawing paper.

An impression of the template in place, and after it was removed,

and here it is !

(50  x 40 cm)

(19.7"  x 15.7")

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During the very warm last few days

the water lily showed her first flower of the year

in a beautiful pink (but too much sun for the picture)

the Meconopsis Cambrica (that I got from Gabi)

Nigella Damascena

and Iris Sibirica "purple haze"

Sitting in the garden with all these beauties around you 

is a sheer delight 

;-)