A beautiful iris in the rain

I was walking home through the drizzling rain recently when I passed the most beautiful iris winking at me through the gloom. I took a photograph and have spent a couple of days painting it. I began with a simple watercolour of the flower and uploaded it to Photoshop where I doctored it a bit to look less natural but I think still pretty beautiful. That aside, the photograph itself is for me, also very special.

Spring Inspiration

I love to see the flowers spring up all over our village, it is so very beautiful at this time of year. I began buying flowers to paint but that turned out to be a little too expensive - and they often died before I finished my picture :( So I have now resorted to taking photographs of beautiful flowers I see in their natural state all around my village and Winterthur city. And then I paint them in the comfort of my own home at leisure. Here is my latest effort in watercolours. What inspires you at this time of year?