Oriental Lily mona lisa liliaceae

Elegant, botanical...magnificent!...LF

Fine and beautiful!

This is so lovely Sandra. Love the softness. Great watercolor.

This is very beautiful, Sandra. Love the delicate details and soft shading. L/F

Beautiful botanical painting, Sandra! L/F

Very beautiful! VF

CONGRATULATIONS! This image is now featured on the Homepage of the Group 'The Magic of Flowers'. You are invited to visit the group and promote this image on the discussion thread. Bravo for this marvelous art. L/F

Hi Alfonso Thank you for lovely encouragement thank you :) and for all comments on my work you are all so kind I hope to return soon to encourage all of you and wonderful FAA............... time is the essence now but I will return ....a sale !!! To whom brought my Lilly card I thank you so much weeeeeee happiness !!!!!

Fantastic !

Hi Debbie thank you you have made my day with such lovely words :)

Simply Gorgeous!!! Love watercolor! What a wonderful work! v/f

Thank you so much for your kind comments Phong ....it took a long time to finish this flower so the composition had to incorporate the season s of the plant as I had difficulty catching the buds this is pure translucent color and this is my true quest..... translucency as much as possible Thanks again love your work ! A very kind FAA member told me about a great on site water colour handbook called "Handbook " it is great reading :) it is free on your computer just type it in Google :)

I like the way you show various angles of this magnificent flower. Just beautiful!

Hi Peter Thank you for such a wonderful compliment This was the last piece of pure white Fabriano 100% pure linen they stopped making it it was so beautiful to paint on ,and W/N permanent rose and Gamboge ..Alizarin in the flower leaving the white of the paper for the flower and back painting around the petals with my mix of Dawn Grey ( mix of Perm rose/raw sienna/cobalt blue) makes the most transparent greys

This one caught my eyes... excellent.

Thank you Xueling ,this one took me 8 years to complete as the bud formed at Christmas time here in Australia and I kept on missing the live bud in a neighbours garden I finally drew and painted it Phew !!!! but the open flower I was very happy with this is from a series that represented the four cycles......... bud, flower ( fruit) death.....

So perfectly done, I really love your watercolor expression, Sandra! Sensitive and gorgeous! Thanks for sharing your work here!