Flower Painting - Bird of paradise 3

Flower Painting Bird of Paradise 3. Tropical still life bird of paradise beach flower watercolor original painting 9 x 12 inches.

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Passion Flower Painting

Passion Flower. Painting of flowers. Purple passion flowers close up watercolor painting. Passion flower is also known as maypop. It is a woody vine with flowers which reminded early pilgrims of the passion or suffering of Christ. Purchase the 18 x 24 inch original painting or prints in different sizes below.

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Original painting $359.00 USD 11 x 14 inch print $25.00 USD 8 x 10 inch print $15.00 USD

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magnolia flower art print

Magnolia acrylic flower art print 11 x 14 inches. This is one of my favorite flowers and also one of my best realistic floral paintings. Available as signed fine art prints in different sizes from the drop down menu below

Magnolia Flower Canvas Painting Art Print

11 X 14 inch Print $30.00 USD

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macro sunflower watercolor painting

Macro sunflower original sunflower watercolor painting sunflowers are one of my favorite subjects to paint. This flower painting has numerous layers of yellow and orange bright colors throughout the petals. Original watercolor painting 12 x 16 inches 159 dollars, or purchase fine art prints from 15 to 25 dollars using the below dropdown menu.

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Original 12 x 16 $159.00 Art Print 11 x 15 $35.00 Art Print 8 x 10 $25.00

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Daisy Vase Flower Painting

Daisy still life flower original modern art watercolor painting 129 dollars. 11 x 15 inches.

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Bluebonnet flower painting original art

11 x 15 inches bluebonnets original flower art watercolor painting. Modern realistic artwork. 149 dollars

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Dogwood tree flowers on Designer Scarves by Marlena

- Lovely Dogwood reminds us immediately of warm and fragrant breezes wafting through the branches. This McCrea original presents a bold design contrasted with the most delicate shadings of the pastel tints. Measuring 30" x 40" the price is only $220.00 for one of the limited edition of 125. Complete with signed certificate of authenticity.

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Magnolia flower on Designer Scarves by Marlena

- We welcome Derek McCrea's work to our growing collection. His sensitive eye for the subtle gradation of dark to light and his appreciation of nature's beauty make a McCrea silk a definite standout for casual or or to wear at an evening gala. Available in a limited edition of 125, it measure 30" x 40". Only $220.00 USD with signed certificate of authenticity

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Dogwood Tree Flowers

Many species in subgenus Swida are stoloniferous shrubs, growing along waterways. Several of these are used in naturalizing landscape plantings, especially the species with bright red or bright yellow stems. Most of the species in subgenus Benthamidia are small trees used as ornamental plants. As flowering trees, they are of rare elegance and beauty, comparable to Carolina silverbell, Canadian serviceberry, and the Eastern Redbud for their ornamental qualities.

The fruit of several species in the subgenera Cornus and Benthamidia is edible, though without much flavour. The berries of those in subgenus Swida are mildly toxic to people, though readily eaten by birds. Dogwoods are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Emperor Moth, The Engrailed, Small Angle Shades and the following case-bearers of the genus Coleophora: C. ahenella, C. salicivorella (recorded on Cornus canadensis), C. albiantennaella, C. cornella and C. cornivorella (The latter three feed exclusively on Cornus). They were used by pioneers to brush their teeth. The pioneers would peel off the bark, bite the twig and then scrub their teeth.

Dogwood tree flowers still life modern realistic watercolor painting fine art signed print 11 x 14 inches. $25 plus 7 shipping.

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Magnolia Tree Flower Painting

Magnolia Tree Flower Painting white floral still life 3 original watercolor painting modern and realistic, southern United States tree. Beautiful white flowers bloom on this tree in the south. I will always remember this tree as my grndmother's favorite in Douglas Georgia. Those were the days I will never forget.

In 1703 Charles Plumier described a flowering tree from the island of Martinique in his Genera. He gave the species, known locally as 'Talauma', the genus name Magnolia, after Pierre Magnol. The English botanist William Sherard, who studied botany in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, a pupil of Magnol, was most probably the first after Plumier to adopt the genus name Magnolia. He was at least responsible for the taxonomic part of Johann Jacob Dillenius's Hortus Elthamensis and of Mark Catesby's famous Natural history of Carolina. These were the first works after Plumier's Genera that used the name Magnolia, this time for some species of flowering trees from temperate North America.

Original one of a kind artwork available to buy as a 11 x 14 inch fine art collectible print for 25 plus 7 shipping below. View more art at my gallery at
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African Daisy Flower Painting

African daisy still life modern realistic orange and yellow flower watercolor original painting, 9 x 12 inches

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Oil Sunflower modern painting

Oil on canvas sunflower original painting modern flower still life oil painting yellow and blue colors, I painted this with a pallet knife, large 16 x 20 inches one of a kind work 99 dollars

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Wildflowers flower modern art painting on yupo paper

Wildflowers flower modern art painting on yupo paper, 9 x 12 inches, wet on wet technique on a new paper called yupo. SOLD
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Poppy Watercolor Yupo Painting

My second painting on yupo paper. I love this new technique and style available through this loose media. SOLD
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hibiscus flower painting

Flower watercolor painting tropical art watercolor painting. This is a 15 x 20 inch floral still life painting from a flower bush in my backyard in Satellite Beach Florida.

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Hibiscus 2 watercolor painting

Today I painted this flower watercolor painting. It is a flower from my back yard here in sunny Satellite Beach, Florida. I had to paint another one since the last one I painted. The last one I painted was pink and this one is orange/peachy. The colors of these flowers bring out the tropical atmosphere.

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December art newsletter part 10 sunflowers 2

Sunflowers II

This painting has a very unique technique applied to create depth and texture for a watercolour. I began this work with a pallet knife and gesso applied to 140 lb stock Arches watercolour paper. The gesso was applied to create structure for the flowers and a diminishing background with less granulation. After the gesso dried I painted the watercolor normal but could not apply a wet on wet technique as the gesso absorbs the paint when applied. The paint applied over gesso created a 3D effect for the overall painting.

“Sunflowers II” is one of my first watercolours. I became accustomed to completing oil paintings and I used many oil painting techniques with this watercolor painting. Many people have told me this painting reminds them of Leonardo Da Vinci’s floral works. That was not my attempt, as I stated this is a very original work, the only one I know of that is watercolor over gesso.

I have always loved sunflowers. When I was younger I can remember my Grandfather taking me out to the sunflower field. It was 67 acres of sunflowers. I can recall bringing back several sunflower heads that were dried for baking in the oven. The rest of the sunflowers were harvested and sold at the end of the season.

Today in the grocery store we see organic this and organic that with the price of the items doubled because the products are organic. I was born and raised in a time and place where everything I ate was organic, on a huge 2,000 acre farm. Sunflowers remind me of good times and hard fu work while growing up on a family farm. One day I hope to have my own garden and grow my own favorite organic fruits, nuts and vegetables and sunflowers will be among that organic garden. 9 x 12 inches

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Daisies watercolor flower painting

2 Daisies

2 Daisies marks the beginning of my floral close-up whimsical impressionistic series of paintings. This painting fits nicely in a bright, colorful room to make the room even more bright and colorful. I used the wet on wet technique for painting this work and it is my first daisy painting also.

The brilliant splashing effect and cool colors in the background promote the mix of whites and light grays composing the flowers in the foreground. The sunflower buds are a mix of wet on wet yellows with orange and raw umber mixes applied to the wet yellow. The key to this technique is not having wetness on any of the outside of the flower bud.

When painting wet on wet I keep the portions I do not wish to be affected dry. Watercolours are indeed magical when working wet on wet and they have their own identity. You can never replicate an image that was painted wet on wet; not even the artist themselves.

9 x 12 inches original painting

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Indian Blanket flower paintings

Indian Blanket - flower paintings

This painting is the Indian Blanket wildflower flower painting, also known as Fire Wheel, or Blanket Flower. While living in El Paso, Texas I was told by many locals in New Mexico that this wildflower is a favorite to the Aztec Indians. After further research I found this to be true. This wildflower is also the state flower of Oklahoma. The Kiowa Indians thought the Indian Blanket wildflowers brought good luck. This flower painting has very attractive and magnificent colorful blooms.

According to history, the name Indian Blanket came from when ancient Aztec Indians wove a blanket with the colors brown, red, and yellow for his or her burial. The following spring the grave was covered with beautiful flowers in the same colors of the Indian Blanket.

The beauty of nature is only intensified by this flower’s spectacular colors. The flower weaves a field with vibrant color as though part of an illustration in a children’s storybook. As each pedal blows with the spring air you can feel the power of nature embracing your soul.

I was inspired to paint this painting by the history of the first American people, the Indians and their natural living experiences in the Southwestern United States. The beauty of the landscape in New Mexico and Arizona is scattered with the Indian Blanket wildflower. Otherwise boring roadside fields are woven in brilliant wildflowers, of which the Indian Blanket is my favorite.
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water lily watercolor flower painting

Water lily flower painting

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Derek McCrea's January 2008 Artist Newsletter

December 2007 was a pretty busy month as I completed a charity interior design project for Dianne Felton, a charity volunteer design project coordinator from Newport Beach, California. She was completing a project for a young girls room. One of the selections was this water lily flower watercolor painting. After the completion of the room makeover her comments were:

"Thank you so much for redecorating and
organizing my room. It looks amazing! I especially like the pictures of
the flowers. They are so pretty."

The images from the makeover are at the below link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marylouskowronski/sets/72157603423586921

One image from the makeover is also attached.

I finally completed all of the coordination placing works in an England based gallery, Zaracus. At the below link you can hear a commentary from me and read 12 stories of inspiration on 12 selected arts. My watercolor lily flower painting and other works are available from Zaracus as originals and fine art prints printed by Zaracus. Soon a personal video starring "me" will be posted on the site also. See below for link to Zaracus.

http://www.zaracus.com/pages/gallery/northamerica/mccrea/mccrea_gallery_01.html

Today, on Christmas eve I wanted to surprise my wife when she woke up with a painting of a water lily. It is a photo she took while we were in New Mexico at the Living Desert Park at an annual Indian festival where they made traditional Indian food including the Century Plant root.

I have attached an image of that latest work. It is available as an original or a limited edition print.

In January 2008, I plan to paint a large number of new works.

Derek McCrea
http://www.derekmccrea.50megs.com
US Army by Profession...
Visual Artist by Choice

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