"Irises 3" Picture A3 Nataliya Popova - Professional Artist for the Master - Class of Elena Moroz February 2020

Irises by Elena Moroz @ihappygirl as part of the @watercolor_battle marathon ...

"I play the waves" Painting Watercolor 56x38 Nataliya Popova - Professional Artist 2020

I play the waves -
I play the boats.
I turn off the day,
I turn on larnps.
Revelation pain
Like foam salt.
Sending away,
Dissolving night.

For the first time in my life, I not only embodied the image in the work, but after the first option, I had a poem about my future work... A sketch, then a poem, and then this work. Something new! Probably it’s Peter who influences me so much - I want to drown from the eternal rain😂 ...

"Ice of Baikal" Painting Etude Watercolor 56x38 Painted by Natalia Popova - Professional Artist in 2020

Another place that makes me dream is Lake Baikal! And I want to return there in the winter. When the purest transparent ice is laid out in incredible patterns and textures! There, even in winter, the sun is constantly and its light makes all this luxury sparkle and shimmer with dazzling colors!. And this is due to the fact that in that climate the most severe temperature drops on the planet are from -40 in winter to +40 in summer. And when the ice freezes, then it melts in

"Shaggy tulips" Painting Watercolor 28x36 Painted by Natalia Popova - Professional Artist 2020

A sketch from last spring - I still couldn't bring myself to finish it. New tulips are about to come, but I can't figure out last year's ones! In general, I hardly return to unfinished works. I took 2 pieces with me - irises and these tulips and both on baohong... And here's what I noticed - I ruined the irises with some masochistic zeal and could hardly resist not to send the tulips there.

I really like the flowers themselves! These silhouettes are antique. I finished it off. I'm not particularly happy

"Cones on fire" Painting Watercolor 56X38 Natalia Popova - Professional Artist 2020

In one breath she combined watercolor painting and strokes from pasty techniques - my love and expression! This is probably my first time when it seemed to me that I wrote a real masterpiece! I could not stop looking and stop. The next day, of course, I calmed down and even found a bunch of things that could be improved / corrected. BUT it's watercolor! It is better to write a dozen more options and then clearly understand what is better after all.

The main rule at the end is - DO NOT TOUCH ANY MORE !!!
In the spring in

"Irises 4 option 1" Painting Watercolor A4 Painted by Natalia Popova - Professional Artist 2020

Another iris season! Irises are probably the most popular watercolor flower. Only the lazy did not write them. And every time they are a discovery and a new universe 😍

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Natalia Popova - Professional Artist.

"Irises 4 option 2" Painting Watercolor A4 Painted by Natalia Popova - Professional Artist 2020

Iris season is open! Oh, what a pity that mine suffered from construction last year... I have to run to my friend for nature😭

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Natalia Popova - Professional Artist.

"Irises 4 option 3" Painting Watercolor A4 Painted by Natalia Popova - Professional Artist 2020

Irises... The third option... the background somehow flooded itself and a few details were added... They became softer, it seems to me 😂

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Natalia Popova - Professional Artist.

"Irises 4 option 4" Painting Watercolor A4 Painted by Natalia Popova - Professional Artist 2020

Irises... The fourth option... I like the blue ones better. But in the Crimea, they grow at every step for everyone (Except for me). But I’m thinking of moving my Moscow collection of blues to the Crimea, because after each passage of a lawn mower under the windows, there are less and less of them.

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Natalia Popova - Professional Artist.

"Such different irises" Painting Watercolor 56x38 Natalia Popova - Professional Artist 2020

What kind of irises breeders just did not bring out !!! All sorts of colors, sizes and degrees of openwork. My assortment of these flowers in the garden is not large and simple, but my friend @natasha_volns has a neighbor who breeds them for sale. Here I marveled at the modesty of my collection. Blue ones the size of my head!!! Well, maybe a little smaller, but they are so huge that I psychologically

"Irises Again and Again" Painting Watercolor 38x56 Natalia Popova - Professional Artist 2020

By the middle of this work, the fuse mysteriously evaporated. I tried to persuade myself to finish for several days and finished it off by force. What's happened?!? I don't know... It's more interesting to paint from nature, but it's more difficult - the flowers open before our eyes, wriggle and wither. The heat is too fast. Blooming peonies and roses did not step on the heels, which the bronze beetles unfortunately devour - and I tormented all the irises. By the end, the work was already pissing me off. Now

"Roses - chameleons" Painting Watercolor 28x38 Natalia Popova - Professional Artist 2020

Opening the rose season. In fact, in the Crimea, they have been blooming for a couple of weeks, and this unique giant rose has already been mercilessly eaten by beetles. It is more than 2 meters in height, and the trunks are like young birch trees. Rose tree. Today I cut off the last buds and they are already ugly gnawed by bronzes and "alyonkas". But this year I managed to stock up on photos and grab a little from nature. This rose is the most picturesque and interesting of all that I have seen. It’s a pity that I don’t know the name of the variety - I stole a branch on the street. But for some reason it