268 - POP ART PELARGONIUM - DAVE EDWARDS - COLOURED PENCILS & FINELINERS - 2009

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268 - POP ART PELARGONIUM - DAVE EDWARDS - COLOURED PENCILS & FINELINERS - 2009

I’ve always loved geraniums (pelargoniums) and I thought I’d do a still life of them, in my own style with added background :)

I used Staedtler Fineliner pens and WH Smiths own brand of coloured pencils (as usual).

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268 - POP ART PELARGONIUM - DAVE EDWARDS - COLOURED PENCILS & FINELINERS - 2009 by BLYTHART
268 - POP ART PELARGONIUM - DAVE EDWARDS - COLOURED PENCILS & FINELINERS - 2009 by BLYTHART
  • Lynnette Shelley

    Lynnette Shelley

    nice one dave

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thank you Lynnette.

  • LTScribble

    LTScribble

    lol..your artwork is always so much fun….. :0) all thing bright and beautiful

  • BLYTHART replied

    ... all creatures great and small … my cats asked me to say that :)

  • madvlad

    madvlad

    another smasher-dav-flower power-grows in blythville edwards england

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thanks Walt.

  • helene ruiz

    helene ruiz

    i luv the way u use color! superb!

  • BLYTHART replied

    Many thanks Helene.

  • Tom Gomez

    Tom Gomez

    Lovely work Dave …

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thanks Tom.

  • andrea verstegen

    andrea verstegen

    That’s fabulous Dave.

  • BLYTHART replied

    Many thanks my friend.

  • andrea verstegen

    andrea verstegen

    Geraniums a great plants. They’re so easy to grow. I’m used to seeing them depicted in terracotta pots as in the art of Beatrix Potter or Kate Greenway, but your drawing brings this flower up to date.

  • BLYTHART replied

    Beatrix Potter and Kate Greenaway are artists I greatly admire … and also Arthur Rackham and Walter Crane, Ralph Hedley, etc.

  • Roseann

    Roseann

    That’s really good. The colors are amazing.

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thanks Roseann

  • Sean Farragher

    Sean Farragher

    lovely work ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hope you are well

  • BLYTHART replied

    I hope you and your lovely family are well also. My wife has been poorly and our daughter has had a bad cold.

  • catherine walker

    catherine walker

    It’s a real beauty dave and the colours just spring out at me..so well done!

  • BLYTHART replied

    It’s had the poorest reception of any of my work for a while :( I actually thought it was a good one.

  • Alexandra Felgate

    Alexandra Felgate

    Oh this is fantastic!!!! Love the gorgeous detail on the leaves (wonderful colour blending) and the background is brilliant…..”shazam!”
    Very cool Dave, another fave xx

  • BLYTHART replied

    Many thanks Alexandra … you are the only person who liked it enough to favourite it. I am used to getting at least three favouritings in the first few hours. My wife says you have all been spoiling me and I must accept this one isn’t so popular. As the previous one got 12 favouritings I foolishly expected this to do well too. I was so disappointed I have actually got up in the middle of the night to check.

  • AnitaInverarity

    AnitaInverarity

    Wonderful Dave- This one just pops right out, from the thumbnail, very nice xx

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thanks for the favouriting; you must have been feeling sorry for me after reading my lament above.

  • Chris Baker

    Chris Baker

    What excites me here Dave, is the way you’ve paid great attention to studying (and painting) the colours of the leaves of the plant in the foreground so beautifully….
    I had to look right in there to appreciate them fully, as the vividness of your glorious background was almost hiding them from me!!
    Wonderful :)

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thanks Chris. The bakground hits you and then as you slowly recover you get the ltitle surprise of seeing the pelargoniums :P

  • AnitaInverarity

    AnitaInverarity

    I never feel sorry for you- just admiration peeps :)))) xx

  • BLYTHART replied

    I am so humbled that a master of drawing such as yourself could admire anything I do.

  • Brian Towers

    Brian Towers

    Good to see you using those subtle shadows well and getting that 3D effect.

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thank you Brian. I have a good mentor … lives in the same town as me … an ex teacher who is also a brilliant painter and writer … do you know him? :)

  • Linda Callaghan

    Linda Callaghan

    this is gorgeous Dave….I do love the bright bold circles in the background that spreads out from the middle….a symbol of a bud blossoming…pretty design and a winner!

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thanks Linda … and thanks especially for the favouriting.

  • Karin Taylor

    Karin Taylorcommunity helper

    sheer delight Dave!

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thanks for the favouriting :)

  • Brenda Dow

    Brenda Dow

    Dave, you shouldn’t loose sleep over your fav’s!!!!!! LOL They’ll be coming…you can be sure of that!!!! And I love the composition….. colorful, uplifting, genuine!!!!

  • BLYTHART replied

    They did :) Thanks.

  • Lance Leopold

    Lance Leopold

    Stunning comp and color!!!

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thanks Lance.

  • MrTAH

    MrTAH

    gorgeous….tah

  • BLYTHART replied

    Many thanks.

  • Mui-Ling Teh

    Mui-Ling Teh

    I like that background; it reflects the patterns on the vase while framing the subject.

  • BLYTHART replied

    That was my intention and I am pleased you spotted it. Thank you.

  • John Dicandia

    John Dicandia

    Beautiful colours and composition. I love it! :)))

  • BLYTHART replied

    I still get excited when really good artists like yourself say they enjoy my work; it means a lot to me.

  • Ming Myaskovsky

    Ming Myaskovsky

    OH MY, Dave!!
    What color!! :)
    You’re amazing, love your creation!! :))

  • BLYTHART replied

    I suppose I am a little rebel … many artists spend a small fortune on their materials and I just use coloured pencils costing $10 for 36.

  • Lynda Robinson

    Lynda Robinson

    ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ again Dave!!!! Really great work that has brightened a very dreary, cloudy morning from where I am sitting!

  • BLYTHART replied

    Thank you Lynda. Some people feel that “grown-ups” should use sombre adult colours, but as I am slowly entering my second childhood (if indeed I ever left my first one) you will be seeing many more brightly coloured creations from me in the future, God willing.

  • angiejones

    angiejones

    Lovely :)

  • angiejones

    angiejones

    Lovely :)

  • DreaM

    DreaM

    whoa! i’m speechless!

  • Deborah Glasgow

    Deborah Glasgow

    Dave, this is great. We share a love of color…

  • Orla Cahill

    Orla Cahill

    Such a happy-looking drawing. Lovely work Dave.

  • MelDavies

    MelDavies

    Excellent Dave, love it.

  • Jonathan L Green

    Jonathan L Green

    Real Cool !
    You Are The Coloured Pencil KING !!

  • Hanneke Jonkman

    Hanneke Jonkman

    Beautiful work and great colours!

  • NoraFraser

    NoraFraser

    this has me recalling the clothing from the seventies with all the bright colours and the bell bottoms and all the designs and the minimalist pop art-neat

  • genevievem

    genevievem 28 days ago

    very cool!

  • jenbaglin

    jenbaglin 28 days ago

    Wow, these are gorgeous, I have been away a while and only just spotted these gorgeous geraniums, I love them too and your interpretation is so lively and full of energy. You have added so much work since the last time I checked in that I can see you are really stretching yourself in fact blossoming was the word that came to mind, but the corny pun was too corny for such lovely work. I love the one of Therese as well.

  • Rosej

    Rosej 26 days ago

    I thought – ‘Is that a peacock I see before me?’ No, but wow, this is so gorgeous – love the texture of the background and then the geraniums (one of my Dad’s favourite plants) in the foreground – fabulous. I wish I could so this. Brill…

  • BLYTHART replied 25 days ago

    Thanks. Why don’t you try. A friend of ours started painting when he was seventy, so it’s NEVER too late. Geraniums are my favourites too.

  • Rosej

    Rosej 25 days ago

    Thank you for your encouragement Blythart – I am a primary school teacher so I do get to do some artwork – with your permission I would like to put some of your work up on the interactive whiteboard via redbubble so that the children can get some real inspiration. I love the last week of term when we are off curriculum timetable and the kids get to do fun things.

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