This is one of those pieces that looks better to me scanned and online than it does in person! Watercolor, marker, pencil, white ink, on paper.
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Carla Sonheim is author of the book "Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun" and creator of "The Art of Silliness," a popular online drawing course. She lives in Seattle, where she shares space with her photographer husband, a game-playing teenager, and this blog.
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March 6, 2012 at 1:55 am
Lizzie Bo
It’s a Dr Suess landscape! And now a creature should peek out from behind one of those plants/trees.
March 6, 2012 at 3:08 am
sunset
lol I see your point. makes one want to play in a field of them. Maybe some of Carla’s little girls are playing in that happy place
March 6, 2012 at 2:15 am
kksantini
Carla, how do you feel about Pinterest? I’d love to “pin” this image in my journalling inspirations folder, but won’t do so without your permission first. THANKS!!
March 6, 2012 at 3:00 am
carlasonheim
I’m fine with pinning!
March 6, 2012 at 2:19 am
andyinstitches
I would pick those flowers and take them home! Love them!
March 6, 2012 at 2:51 am
Carmen Tangherlini
Awesome! Love the colors and all the different textures.
March 6, 2012 at 2:51 am
Kay Hewitt
I like this!
March 6, 2012 at 3:05 am
sunset
Oh my those flowers are inspiring. Totally love the tall one and the little pod type things just make me plain happy. So glad you shared them with us.
March 6, 2012 at 3:12 am
Julie Lapointe
What a beautiful garden!
March 6, 2012 at 3:37 am
lisarichards1956
You have a fertile imagination! Love it!
March 6, 2012 at 5:35 am
ozma
I love these “strange ones”
March 6, 2012 at 7:18 am
carrollwc
I love this!!!
March 6, 2012 at 9:06 am
bomlokunstlag
They might be strange, but I LOVE them!
March 6, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Lyle
just what tribe do these folks come from? they are delightful.
March 6, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Joanne
love them — would love to see them in my garden :0)
March 6, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Helen Mills
this is lovely
March 6, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Deb Dugan
I love them too! How do you do it? (I mean how do you do these amazingly original things all the time?!?!)
March 6, 2012 at 7:38 pm
carlasonheim
Thank you for saying that!
March 6, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Andi
For some reason, those flowers remind me of being on the beach in Florida during the summer. Love them!
March 6, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Barb Alexander
I absolutely LOVED this one!! It reminds me of a tribal village somewhere–and wherever it is, I want to go there!
Barb Alexander
March 6, 2012 at 8:40 pm
Serena Mira Asta
Nice.
March 6, 2012 at 10:39 pm
Eva Marion Seyffarth
These strange ones are amazing and completely gorgeous!
March 7, 2012 at 12:35 am
Michelle Mathey - POMI
LOVE these flowers and “your eye” in painting them!
March 20, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Jill Holmes
I don’t know what it is about this piece but I love it! It is fun and quirky–almost in a grown-up-Dr.-Suess sort of way.