A splash of colour!
Yesterday, I showed you my ink drawing of these poppy seed heads. Today, I'm sharing the process of adding colour to my drawing using watercolours.
History
The poppy seed is mentioned in ancient medical texts from many civilizations. For instance, the Egyptian papyrus scroll named Ebers Papyrus, written c. 1550 BC, lists poppy seed as a sedative.
The Minoan civilization (approximately 2700 to 1450 BC), a Bronze Age civilization which arose on the island of Crete, cultivated poppies for their seed, and used a milk, opium and honey mixture to calm crying babies.
The Sumerians are another civilization that are known to have grown poppy seeds.Poppy seeds have long been used as a folk remedy to aid sleeping, promote fertility and wealth, and even to provide supposed magical powers of invisibility
I mainly use the dried seed heads in flower arrangements, but I may give the invisibility thing a go too!
It's amazing the range of colours you can find on a dried poppy seed head; yellows, pinks, blues, greens, purples, so many! You just have to look closely and observe the variety of hues.
Time to add a background colour, and for this I wanted to match the colour to the fresh green poppy seed heads.
I've been experimenting digitally with the original line drawing and I hope to share these designs with you soon!
That is stunning!!! Love the contrast of the colour and the dark ink. Very eye catching! have upvoted.
My first vote- thank you!
The outline is quite strong, almost graphical because of the type of nib I was using on the dip pen. This has inspired me to use the line art for a digital piece. Thank you for your comment!
it is a pleasure :)
@opheliafu - It is great to see your process to add color to the poppy head drawings. Your use of water color is very subtle. I notice that you like to keep a very transluscent layer of color rather than heavy usage. Great technique.. Thanks for sharing. Upvoted and followed you.
At my end, I continued my observations of nuggets of wisdom from wildlife and wrote a blog 'How to Chill - 🐵
Monkey Style' with my wildlife photos and musings with a twist. I request you to take a look at it when you have time. Your comments, as always, would be an encouragement and incentive for me to make better blogs. Thanks
Your style and mixture of colors is amazing. I always like see your art work, keep it up and have a blessed weekend.
Thank you, blessing to you too!
welcome
You are doing great! I did not even know that such plants are, probably just in our country, where I live there are no such plants. Good luck.
I will have to post some more pictures and drawings of the flowers soon. It's towards the end of the season for my poppy flowers- most have already turned to seed.
I will wait for new and new drawings, it's a pity that the season ends ..
Really color splash! Just no words, they're awesome! I definitely have to find some to draw myself:)
nice
Whoa! Not a lot of people are skilled in this form of art.
You sure have skills Ophelia. Brilliant art work!
Woah, how cool! You are so talented!
Yup! great post thanks for sharing waiting for your another post keep it up :)
beautiful @opheliafu ! you got a talent! :-)
Thank you very much dear friend @opheliafu for all this wonderful information and the beautiful work, congratulations for the great work you do
Have a nice day.
Amazing colors, @opheliafu!