Tuesday 10 June 2014

Summer of color; blue poppies




On my workdesk today is a sketch for the summer of color challenge.

Neocolor water soluble crayon

My Meconopsis or blue poppy is drawn from a photograph I took recently at Dunvegan castle gardens.
I took loads of flower photographs in the hope they may inspire me for the SOC challenge which runs for six weeks. It follows a colour theme, this weeks colours being, Aqua, yellow and pink.




Aqua, yellow, pink

Linking to
Summer of color





40 comments:

  1. How wonderful your images are, Morag - thank you so much for the inspiration :)

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  2. What a lovely blue poppy, not seen one like that before. Your version of is Fab. Well done.

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  3. Super gorgeous...such beautiful art Morag...I am enchanted.....and I totally love the blue poppy and have always dreamed of having them..magnificent entry for SOC!

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  4. such a lovely piece
    and sweet inspiration
    i have never seen a blue poppy

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  5. Have never seen a Blue poppy. Awesome!

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  6. A really lovely painting and I liked seeing it with your box of crayons and the photograph.

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  7. Love your beautiful poppy. Wow, that is a beautiful blue poppy. I would love to have them growing in my garden. I have to look them up and see if there are seeds for them. Thanks for the introduction and beautiful work. gloria

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  8. oh good grief, blue poppies! i had no idea! that's almost as wild as gold beetles!

    your drawing is beautiful, morag. i love the shade of blue you chose...

    xoxo

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  9. You never cease to amaze me with your talents such beautiful colours.

    Happy WOYWW
    Eliza & Yoda

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  10. beautiful drawing Morag, and a gorgeous photo of a blue poppy, never heard or seen one of those before! I remember my visit to Dunvegan castle last year, it was a really sunny day and the gardens were beautiful.

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  11. Hi Morag, I enjoyed browsing through all the latest creations you have done. Fishing on a Plate is wonderful and I love how you pulled from your photos of the colorful village.

    Your beautiful floral sketch is just like your photograph. I think flowers are hard.

    I can't imagine seeing seals while out and about. Extraordinary!

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  12. A blue poppy? I've never seen one, but your is gloriously beautiful!

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  13. Great idea to use flowers for this challenge! Your sketch looks great! You're very fast, I hope to finish mine by Friday ....

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  14. Morag this is fresh and beautiful!

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  15. Beautiful blue poppy. So lovely to see your paintings again too, lovely as the mermaids are. Sorry I have not been visiting and commenting lately - just a difficult period at the moment, but I look forward to getting round to it again.

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  16. Love your poppy Morag, I saw pink and yellow poppies this week. Valerie

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  17. beautiful..and I love the seals too

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  18. Very pretty! I love how you used the SOC here on your beautiful work of art!

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  19. so beautiful...I love a poppy flower in any color!

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  20. I have never seen blue poppies before. They are so beautiful, and perfect for this week's SOC.

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  21. How gorgeous! That is a new flower for me, a blue poppy. You have done a fantastic job.

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  22. Ah it's beautiful! I see you're having fun with the Neocolors too! Have a lovely weekend Morag. xx

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  23. Just lovely - I have never seen a blue poppy before

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  24. This is lovely! I put some blue poppies in my garden last year and am waiting for them to bloom some time soon. I've been waiting for SOC to start again but now that it did, I still haven't had time to participate! Well, there's another day, and more weeks to come...

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  25. I never knew blue poppies existed! wow! your piece is gorgeous!!

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  26. Oh WOW ! Beautiful.....and You've given Me a good idea too for a recent photo .You can see the flower ,I think, on 2 post ago.I'm going to paint it :)

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  27. So beautiful, perfect for this week's SOC colour prompt. I love Neocolor IIs!

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  28. Beautiful!!! I love Poppies and this one is fantastic. ♥

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  29. Beautiful... just beautiful! I'm totally loving the photo too!
    HuGGs!
    Debi

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  30. Love your poppy. Just beautiful.
    Gloria

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  31. Love Skye, it is a paradise for nature lovers and has an abundance of colour everywhere. Dunvegan Castle has the most amazing views and a magnificent garden. Blue Poppys are so beautiful, i bought some on a Saturday, by Sunday they had been eaten by the slugs, each leaf and stem devoured i was gutted...

    I do remember a lady called Daisy Budge having a lot of images of the beautiful seals for sale.

    Love your drawing, the colours are beautiful and definitely a good resemblance from the picture :-) xxx

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  32. Just wonderful! I love your aqua poppy in this amazing color!

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  33. This is lovely-great photos and fab interpretation of it.

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