Almost spring flowers

"March Camillia"
"Proud Cyclamen"

Tis looking a lot like spring here and the garden beckons. The camillias are almost done, so I captured the last one on paper. The cyclamen always amaze me. In the winter, the colder it is the better they seem to do. They continue to look perky, so I took a couple photos from above. I had fun using lots of different colors, loose and wet, and letting them mingle on the paper, then I added some negative painting to push and pull the shapes. They were a pleasure to do because I planned the shapes and light patterns, but then I kept responding to the painting as it developed to bring out the value pattern.