Magnolia with Shadows – Original

Magnolia With Shadows

This painting is a watercolor on canvas of the Saucer Magnolia tree in bloom.  The canvas size is 10″ x 8″. The white of the painting is the actual canvas. The transparent watercolor technique does not use white paint to achieve the light areas of the painting. It is framed in white wood with a floral relief. The Saucer Magnolia tree which grows as far north as Illinois and Southern Wisconsin is much smaller than the Magnolia Grandeflora of the southern United States. It grows it’s flower from buds that wait all winter long to open in April, or even earlier in it’s southern zones.

This painting does not require glass.  It is treated with a protective varnish.