Poppies

The Poppy is a singularly striking flower and one of my favourites.  Easy to grow, startling in its complexity and with a leaf texture like no other.  The nearest thing I can suggest is Japanese tissue - a soft and delicate material, like paper of infinite thinness and yet capable of transmitting soft sunlight through its fibres. A thing of beauty indeed and worthy of closer study.

Picture size 24" x 18" Watercolour on paper pad.   The picture above only shows part of the whole - as it wasn't possible to scan it all).

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