Arch in a Pink Wall

Nature surrounding beautiful architecture always looks perfect.

In this picture I used a little bit different technique than usual. I used a lot of extra water, and made the paper wet to flow the colors, and soften them as they spread and blend.

Copyright Lily Serj, and LilysWatercolorPaintings 2008-2011

Small Town street

An Old English Small Town street. No particular place, just a general characterization of Old England.

It reminds me of scenes I have seen in Old English Stories, & Movies.

It also reminds me of my childhood, in the Southern Ukraine, growing up in areas of the Black Sea, with structures just about like this too.

England has always been a country of individual houses and well-tended gardens, where privacy and a sense of self-expression are important elements.

Notice the white painted window frames, with the browns and dark browns of the houses walls. Then - in the middle of it all, a green door, beside the neighbors house with a traditional brown door - this was a time of variety, color, and choice, unlike a housing development of today, where all the houses are designed with just one design color scheme, like cans at a factory!

Copyright Lily Serj, and LilysWatercolorPaintings 2008-2011

Camellias

Camellias are fantastic! I like to paint flowers while blossoming on the trees, and Camellias are particularily impressive.

Camellias are like music on the tree, just looking at them makes me feel alive!

Always different and various colours, camellias are attractive, with never a repeated style.

This Painting was done using a mix of Water Color and Acrylic, to play with the two mediums together! You can see a lot of pictures of Camellia's here.

If you can think of a more Beautiful and varying flower, please share your thoughts in a comment here.

Copyright Lily Serj, and LilysWatercolorPaintings 2008-2011

A New Painting - 'Old Front Door'

Today I just finished a new painting! Today it was with acrylic - but I do like to paint in acrylic, too!

The painting is a view of a typical front door and home with trees, hedges, etc. in the front yard, in my home city - Kerch, Ukraine.

The painting took me two days, working a little in the morning, and a little in the afternoon and evening.

This picture was taken with a lower resolution digital camera in the evening with flash and simple lighting, so it does not look as good as in daylight.

I have some other ideas for paintings in mind I will be posting shortly.

Copyright Lily Serj, and LilysWatercolorPaintings 2008-2011

Yellow poppies

This is my new style graphic artwork, done like the Red Poppies - posted below. Notice the differences - the framing is presented angling away from the viewer - closer on the left and farther on the right. It is like the Red Poppies image was rotated away and the Poppies switched to Yellow from Red!

Of course - the framing color was also changed, from Green, to Orange, and my Signature is outside the frame, rather than inside. All subtle things, to be sure, but all added to create a twist on the previous presentation!

Copyright Lily Serj, and LilysWatercolorPaintings 2008-2011

Red Poppies

Red poppies are symbol of Love in the Middle Asia.

This picture is in my new style of graphic artwork.

This one was done first with India Ink in the drawing stage, and then the Water Colors were added. This style of painting is good for Illustrating stories in books.

Click here For a Collection of Poppy Images.

Poppies have been one of my favourite flowers since I was a child, in my Native Land. I remember fields in May - with lots of Red Poppies! They looked like a Huge Red Rug!! In combination with Sunbeams, it was a Fairy Tale Landscape!

Copyright Lily Serj, and LilysWatercolorPaintings 2008-2011

Poppies in Vase

Flowers give me Great Gladness!!

This is a hybrid of Water Color and India Ink, with the painting being done first, and then the (Black) India Ink being used to define the hard edges, centres, divisions and petals, etc.

This picture also was painted using a lot of water on the paper during the painting, but allowed to dry before the India Ink was applied. I painted it this way because I like the results!

"A poppy is any of a number of colorful flowers, typically with one per stem, belonging to the poppy family. They include a number of attractive wildflower species with colorful flowers found growing singularly or in large groups; many species are also grown in gardens. Those that are grown in gardens include large plants used in a mixed herbaceous border and small plants that are grown in rock or alpine gardens." - Quote from Wikipedia

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