Mucked-up my Marsh Marigold – Tina's Fine Art UK

Progress pics for MARSH MARIGOLD, (Caltha palustris, Code 1404), water colour. One for the ‘book’ (co-author, Sylvia M Haslam).

Flower mass in my little wild garden pond

Flower mass in my neighbour's pond — Flower mass in my neighbour’s pond

Actual plants used to draw initial sketch

Have abandoned the marsh marigold painting. I had so many interruptions whilst trying to paint that in the end I ‘mucked it up’! I am now re-tracing my preliminary sketch onto water colour paper to begin again – very tiresome. The plates below show the discarded picture’s progress:

Initial sketch, used for tracing on to water colour paper (Aquarelle Arches).