Art
by Rachel - Original Watercolors
The Garden Gallery I - Assorted Florals
I Assorted Florals
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. (Anais Nin )
Bougainvillea
Garden thru the Looking Glass
No great
artist ever sees things as they really
are. If he did he would cease to be an artist. (Oscar Wilde )
II Delphiniums
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Blue Delphiniums
III Morning Glories
Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good. (Pablo Picasso)
Morning Glories
IV Chrysanthemums
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. (Oscar Wilde)
Red Chrysanthemums
V Rhododendrons/Azaleas
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. (Eric Hoffer)
Pastel Rhododendron
VI Lilacs
Painters must speak through paint, not through words. (Hans Hofmann )
Purple Lilacs
VII Gladiolus
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. (Michael J. Gelb )
Blue Gladioli
VIII Elephant Ears
Patience is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden. (English proverb)
Elephant Ears
IX Freesias
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. (Gerald De Nerval)
Mixed Freesias
X Tulips
Signs from the soul come silently, as silently as the sun enters the darkened world. (Tibetan Saying )
Under the Tulips
XI Columbines
I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death. (Edgar Degas)
Blue Columbines
XII Hong Kong Orchid Tree Blossoms
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. (Mark Twain)
Hong Kong Orchid Tree Blossoms
XIII Poinsettias
The whole world,
as we experience it visually, comes to us
through the mystic realm of color. (Hans Hofmann)
Poinsettia Study
Time and
again passion overwhelms reason. (Alvaro Castagnet)
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