Miniature Flower Painting

While traveling this week I challenged myself to create a painting with limited supplies to avoid over-packing my luggage. I packed a: tiny watercolor block, #2 brush, small filbert brush, small tube of 6 colors (yellow, orange, red, purple, blue and green), one pencil and a reference photo.

Here was the result: Pink Flower Miniature by Jess Sanaie (c) 2010, 4x6in

In this painting I explored the challenge of doing a very small painting and learned the virtues of using a pencil to give the painting structure

(thus an exception to the post Supplies I Don't Use in which I said I prefer not using pencil). In this painting I also explored using a new color, Phtalo Violet.