Winter Draws On... Part 6 - The Wall
Regular viewers may recall that I am trying to banish the winter blues (or greys, to be more precise) by painting my way through the orchids I was lucky enough to see in the flesh over the past spring and summer. After completing around half of them, I believe I have hit the equivalent of the marathon runner's 'wall', when the fatigue really begins to kick in and the finish line seems a long way off. The remaining species are mostly the same sort (eg 'marsh orchids', 'fragrant orchids', 'Epipactis helleborines') or impossibly difficult such as the multi-flowered lizard orchid. So to make it a bit more appealing I decided to paint what remains in a taxonomic jumble, which explains the juxtaposition of the species above, namely from left to right Dactylorhiza incarnata ssp pulchella, Epipactis palustris and Neottia nidus-avis.
Winter Draws On... Part 6 - The Wall
Regular viewers may recall that I am trying to banish the winter blues (or greys, to be more precise) by painting my way through the orchids I was lucky enough to see in the flesh over the past spring and summer. After completing around half of them, I believe I have hit the equivalent of the marathon runner's 'wall', when the fatigue really begins to kick in and the finish line seems a long way off. The remaining species are mostly the same sort (eg 'marsh orchids', 'fragrant orchids', 'Epipactis helleborines') or impossibly difficult such as the multi-flowered lizard orchid. So to make it a bit more appealing I decided to paint what remains in a taxonomic jumble, which explains the juxtaposition of the species above, namely from left to right Dactylorhiza incarnata ssp pulchella, Epipactis palustris and Neottia nidus-avis.