Queen Anne's Lace and Wild Cowpeas Watercolor Batik

by Conni Schaftenaar

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6.000 x 8.000 inches

Title

Queen Anne's Lace and Wild Cowpeas Watercolor Batik

Artist

Conni Schaftenaar

Medium

Mixed Media - Watercolor Batik And Ink On Ginwashi Rice Paper

Description

Queen Anne's Lace Abstract with Wild Cowpeas, Watercolor Batik and Ink on Ginwashi Rice Paper, by Conni Schaftenaar.

Part of my current focus on doing watercolor batik on rice paper, this Queen Annes Lace image is from a photo I took on my farm in West Michigan. I loved the little purple wild vetch or cowpea blossoms vining around the Queen!

I drew the flower in Micron pen, then waxed the areas I wanted to preserve in white; then applied shades of blues and greens to run and play in the background. When that first glazing of color was dry, I applied more streaks and blobs of wax to simulate background grasses and stems, and applied another glaze of blues and greens to darken it further. After that was dried and the wax ironed off, I painted the cowpea blossoms and leaves. As a further step, after all this was dry, I applied wax over the entire sheet and cracked it when the wax was set. I used the purple to apply some crackle, but I was not happy with how the crackle looks, so I've decided to only post the pre-crackle version. I will post this as "for sale" and share the image with the crackle if someone is interested.

April 2023 update: this painting won an honorable mention in a local art exhibit - Georgetown Artists - woohooo!

3rd place tie in the Finding Summer Simplicity Contest, July 2022
3rd place in the Wild Flowers contest, October 2022
3rd place in the Blue contest, November 2022
2nd place win in The Letter Q Watercolor contest, June 2023
3rd place tie in the Pretty Pretty Blue contest, August, 2023
3rd place tie in the Wishing Sales contest, February 2024

Featured in:
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For The Art of It, January 2023

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June 27th, 2022

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