Painting a bouquet I made at work using inks and watercolour

This is the bouquet I was inspired by! 


When i'm not at university I work as a florist in a local flower shop. This is where I first started learning my plant names! I love this job whole heartedly as I love playing around with composition and seeing where focal points should be and which colours clash and what structures complement each other. I also love the hands on aspect of working with something in real time and problem solving as I go with a "brief" and a budget. There's also something so beautiful about working with something that is only beautiful for a short period of time before it decays. 
I was looking at photos of my bouquets when I decided it would be fun to try and paint one. I chose this bouquet as I love the maroon/ red colour scheme and the grasses. I used inks and water colour paints and then once both had dried, I went over the top with glitter watercolour paints to add subtle highlights to a few areas. I also used a shimmery white to draw the lisianthus and daisies as otherwise white would not show up on my cream paper very clearly. I really enjoyed this process and will definitely repeat it in the future. 

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