rosalie bebee: botanicals
STURT’S DESERT PEA II
Watercolour on Fabriano HP 640 paper; Unframed dimensions 190mm x 230mm
Sturt's Desert Pea II is modified from a photo Beverley took of the magnificent inland creeping plant at the Australian Inland Botanic Gardens just north of Mildura. The graphite version (below) was an earlier model for this painting.
Sturt's Desert Pea II is modified from a photo Beverley took of the magnificent inland creeping plant at the Australian Inland Botanic Gardens just north of Mildura. The graphite version (below) was an earlier model for this painting.
Sturt’s Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa)
Watercolour on Fabriano HP 640 paper; Dimensions 160mm x 220mm
Thanks to David Reynolds for his wonderful photo reference and tuition at the online Botanic Art course with Melbourne Friends Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
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Thanks to David Reynolds for his wonderful photo reference and tuition at the online Botanic Art course with Melbourne Friends Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
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Silver Princess - Euclayptus caesia
Watercolour paint on Daler Rowney “The Langton” board; Unframed dimensions 190mm x200mm
The silver princess is a delightful species of Mallee tree with weeping branches, colourful pink or red flowers with yellow anthers followed by attractive bell shape gum “nuts” which form housing for little spiders and insects as well as being the “fruit”. The name derives from the blue white bloom which coats its shiny wine red branches and buds.
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The silver princess is a delightful species of Mallee tree with weeping branches, colourful pink or red flowers with yellow anthers followed by attractive bell shape gum “nuts” which form housing for little spiders and insects as well as being the “fruit”. The name derives from the blue white bloom which coats its shiny wine red branches and buds.
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Pink Ice Protea - Protea nerifolia x susannae
Watercolour on Fabriano HP 640; Unframed dimensions 240mm x 300mm
This is a painting of a South African Protea a popular flowering plant which complements our Australian native plants. The foliage is challenging as it opens up around the flower. To me, it's as if the foliage is drawing attention to the flowers saying “here is beauty”.
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This is a painting of a South African Protea a popular flowering plant which complements our Australian native plants. The foliage is challenging as it opens up around the flower. To me, it's as if the foliage is drawing attention to the flowers saying “here is beauty”.
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Cucumber Magnolia - Magnolia acuminata
Watercolour paint on Fabriano HP 640 paper; Unframed dimensions 210mm x190mm
This tree is so named because the unripe fruit is green and often shaped like a small cucumber. When mature it turns to a dark red or wine colour and the carpels split open to release bright red seeds. It has beautiful large white/cream flowers but the appearance of the mature fruit is particularly breathtaking, and attractive to the local currawongs.
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This tree is so named because the unripe fruit is green and often shaped like a small cucumber. When mature it turns to a dark red or wine colour and the carpels split open to release bright red seeds. It has beautiful large white/cream flowers but the appearance of the mature fruit is particularly breathtaking, and attractive to the local currawongs.
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Sturt’s Desert Pea Swainsona formosa
Graphite on Fabriano HP 300 paper; Unframed Dimensions 210mm x 230mm
One of Australia’s most iconic desert wildflowers was forming a carpet of blood red blooms at the Australian Inland Botanic Gardens in NSW just north of the Victorian border and Mildura. This is a small sample to show off its unique structure around a stem, a roundabout of vertical flowers showing a flag above the black “boss” or “dog's nose”, a keel below flanked by two wings all in arterial blood red. The stem and leaves are blue green in colour and are furry. The plant sends shoots along the ground with the stem and its roundabout of flowers accompanied by a sprig of leaves popping up at intervals along the bottom “branch”.
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One of Australia’s most iconic desert wildflowers was forming a carpet of blood red blooms at the Australian Inland Botanic Gardens in NSW just north of the Victorian border and Mildura. This is a small sample to show off its unique structure around a stem, a roundabout of vertical flowers showing a flag above the black “boss” or “dog's nose”, a keel below flanked by two wings all in arterial blood red. The stem and leaves are blue green in colour and are furry. The plant sends shoots along the ground with the stem and its roundabout of flowers accompanied by a sprig of leaves popping up at intervals along the bottom “branch”.
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BIRDS OF PARADISE
Strelitzias; Polychromos colour pencil on Mylar drafting film; Unframed dimensions 320mm x 270mm Framed dimensions 340mm x 380mm
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busy bees
Polychromos colour pencil on Fabriano HP Paper; Unframed dimensions 450 x 390mm; Framed dimensions. 310 x 240mm
Bees busy harvesting pollen and nectar from Correa flowers
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Bees busy harvesting pollen and nectar from Correa flowers
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fuschia
Medium:Watercolour on Fabriano HP Paper; Unframed dimensions 250x360mm
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