Two Roses

by Lois Bryan

Title

Two Roses

Artist

Lois Bryan

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Digital Art - Digital Art / Non-photography Based Digital Hand-painting

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I've always had a soft spot for roses.

When I was a little girl, my parents had the traditional white picket fence that bordered the house. At one side was an arbor ... picture pretty ... and on it climbed the sweetest-smelling red roses. They weren't very big, and they only bloomed once a year, and boy did they ever attract the bees (which scared the dickens out of little-girl me). But my bedroom window wasn't far from that wild climbing thing ... and that amazing fragrance, long, long gone now, sometimes still haunts me.

At one time, in the garden of the house my husband and I shared for many years, I grew tea roses ... I think at the height of the madness, I had about 25 going at one time. Tea roses have the advantage of blooming all season, as long as you nurture and pamper and baby them daily. The nurturing and pampering includes watering, not on the leaves,, mind you, in the soil, and they must be fed special rose food. Not too much. Not too often. Plus, there's the standing guard over them night and day to make sure the deer and the cane borers don't eat them up or the black spot doesn't rot them.

My husband and I moved a few years ago and I haven't had any luck getting in any rose bushes here, yet, but I have hopes. Until then, I'll draw them and paint them and remember them.

"Two Roses" was hand drawn, freehand, in Corel Painter with a tablet and only two brushes. Unlike many of my images, there was no photo reference whatsoever.

This image was NOT created using AI - Artificial Intelligence programs.

Roses

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March 1st, 2019

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