Yesterday, I sketched a very small portion of a floral arrangement at church. Several of us gather there on Monday mornings to pray for any specific needs we become aware of. I waited unti, this morning to add watercolor.
I’ve never been one to enjoy formal floral arrangements, either to paint or to receive. I prefer wildflowers in their natural setting, or perhaps a single rose that my husband cuts and brings inside to fill our home with the lovely fragrance. (We only grow antique types of roses that maintain the original scents placed there by the Creator.) But sketching just a wee bit of an arrangement is fun.
I love the sketch, the quotes and the purpose you were serving when you were gathering for prayer! I also love husband-cut roses. Most of ours are very fragrant - not antiques but delicious - that he picked out, ordered and then asked me where to plant! 27 roses were squeezed in.... I adore them. Vases? My favorite, beyond the blue and white fish I found at Ross years ago is usually whichever jar is empty and fits! Few commercial vases fit fistfulls of flowers.
ReplyDeleteLOL — Sometimes things seem to come together in unexpected ways, like this blog post!
DeleteWe live near The Antique Rose Emporium. They go all over Texas, to abandoned farms and homesteads, finding rose shrubs that have thrived in spite of neglect — often well over 100 years old. Most have the original fragrances, planted before man-made hybrids. Then they propagate the cuttings they take to later offer these for sale. We have lost a few in recent floods, but the survivors are amazing,
And I agree — cut flowers always look best in simple containers such as an old canning jar, antique water pitcher, or coffee mug!
This is such a pretty sketch. I love it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Annie! I just had to sketch “something” and the arrangement was sitting near by.
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