White Rose

 

6 x 6 inches - oil on hardboard - The colours in a white rose are not what you would think they are.

Rose and Coffee

 

6 x 6 inches - oil on hardboard - One day I will try to make coffee in this. I only bought it to paint.

Fairy Rose

 8 x 8 inches - oil on hardboard - The fairy rose is a small prolific rose that does very well in our garden. Most roses don't.

Pink Rose

6 x 6 inches - Oil on Gessoboard - There are a lot of ways to paint a flower depending on the effect you want. Here is one of them. It was kind of petal by petal as opposed to pulling out the detail from a general mass of colour if that makes sense.

Pink Rose

6 x 6 inches - oil on gessoboard - Here is another of my flower portraits. With flowers being infinitely variable, these are excellent exercises.