Muscari
The smell of oil pastels and rosemary
There is nothing quite like starting my day off with drawing, that beautiful serenity for a couple of hours- perfect! I was up earlier this morning to set up for an art workshop. The weather was rather damp so I threw on my raincoat and went out into the garden to pick some fresh flowers to draw. I picked some big bunches of rosemary, forget-me-nots, muscari and the soft grey leaves of the Helichrysum italicum (curry plant). The smell of the freshly cut rosemary was divine and an interesting mix with the aroma of the Helichrysum italicum (curry plant) which is a member of the daisy family, the leaves smell like curry powder.
As I drew my oil pastel study I crushed some of the rosemary between my fingers, there is something very calming about the smell of rosemary. Soon the fragrance of the rosemary mingled with the distinctive aroma of the oil pastels that were also becoming ingrained on my fingertips.
'Muscari' 2017 -oil pastels on paper
Beautiful colors @opheliafu!
Thank you @sgnsteems. I've actually managed to get most of these colours onto my jeans today (I'm a messy worker), maybe I'll be setting a new trend!?!
Did you manage to make them flowers on your jeans? Maybe thats your next thing art on clothes? :)
More like dirty marks from wiping my hands on my jeans. The flowers i drew on paper.
too bad we can't get the smell too...
I quite like the smell of oil pastels and oil paints- but I don't know if that's an artist thing or if they genuinely smell good to everybody.
I guess you associate good memories to those smells.
The excitement of painting!
Your garden must be full of color. Lovely picture :)
I'm sending some your way in the form of these postings. :D
Thank you. Might stick then on my windows to make my garden look better
Great combination of scents and palate here.
This is a post following through on the same flowers you posted about last week right?
I remember them and the colours that day!
Yes, I was making my samples for the workshop.
Howdy friend...
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Awesome! I was about 10th or 11th in re score for a while, but no longer and with all this flagging i can't see me moving up anytime soon.
Yes, I could not agree more on this. I always noticed your name when I was the babiest of minnows.... way up on the list in every category and never dreamed I would ever be within like 5 pages of you and some of the legends here ever LOL
You are such a beautiful soul and I feel actually smarter and better for just hearing from you once in awhile and seeing your work.
You cannot really put a price on this kind of stuff when touching people the way you do.
That is so sweet, thank you. I love having fun on Steemit, and as long as I focus on doing that and not worrying about rep or flags then things will be good. Hopefully that will come across in my artwork too!
I think it does.
I was intimidated to talk to you at first over the months being a powerful girl whale like you are, but you are pretty nice LOL
You feel like my sister most days for a long time now, and I feel happy when you name pops up in my feed, I think I have said to you once or twice now.
I'm not that powerful! More like a large trout.
Excellent work lady @opheliafu very beautiful work, very colorful, congratulations, thank you very much for sharing something so beautiful
Good post!
Hello @opheliafu
You are a very talented Artist, i am glad i found your blog, I am always on the lookout for people like you.
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