Barberry Shrub Spring Buds with Background
by Conni Schaftenaar
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Title
Barberry Shrub Spring Buds with Background
Artist
Conni Schaftenaar
Medium
Drawing - Colored Pencil And Watercolor Pencil On Duralar
Description
Barberry Shrub with Buds in the Spring with Misty Background, colored pencil on Duralar by Conni Schaftenaar.
Wandering around my front flower/perennial beds this year, I happened to see tiny, tiny little red buds nestled in the leaves of my barberry shrubs. I took a bunch of photos, because they were so very tiny and pretty - dark red in the deeper red/purple leaves. I grabbed a macro shot and decided to render it in colored pencil on Duralar. These tiny little buds eventually opened to reveal tiny little flowers that were almost chartreuse - a green/yellow, which surprised me, given the red outer husk! The flowers are so tiny that when you look at the shrub from even a few feet away, you are aware of little spots of lighter color, the yellow/green, but it doesn't look like a flowering shrub. I've had those shrubs for years and never noticed those tiny little buds or flowers before!
After scanning the drawing when it had a white background, I then added a misty background using watercolor pencil and activating it to flow and run. The version with a white background is also on my gallery.
2nd place tie in the Your Garden contest, December 2022
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June 9th, 2022
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Comments (42)
Laurel Adams
Dear Conni, you are always so amazing with mixing media, especially the combination of mixing watercolour pencils for soft backgrounds while saving wax coloir pencils for the primary theme details. This is such a STUNNING mixed pencil painting! BRAVA! I loved reading about this in Marsha’s NEW WATERMEDIA thread in the BUZzz !
Conni Schaftenaar
Thanks Viktor! Andthanks to all who voted this to a 2nd place tie in the Your Garden contest, December 2022.
Gary F Richards
Outstanding Barberry Shrub composition, lighting, shading, color and artwork! F/L voted
Conni Schaftenaar
Thanks, Laurel - it is ENTIRELY your fault that I'm doing colored pencil, so you can thank yourself for this, too! xoxo
Laurel Adams
Conni, you are such an amazing media explorer…I so love your creative visions: your watercolour batiks and these Colour Pencil explorations. Thank you for sharing your glimpses of beauty, your time and talent within… The BUZzz! Loving this trace of Summer as we ready to cross the threshold into Autumnal glories.
Conni Schaftenaar
Thanks, Laurel - this is the version that made the Pencil Box July 2022 features - soooo excited!
Laurel Adams
Conni, I am SOooo excited for your feature DISTINCTION on the highly competitive monthly Pencil Box contests… presentated by Ann Kullberg -CONGRATULATIONS! This year, you have been on a roll!!…touring in galleries and exhibitions and now in this prestigious color pencil venue? I am SO excited for you!! I am SOooo happy, I must brag on you a bit…now I’m unsure which barberry version is on so I am FAVing BOTH!..:-)
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