The fragrance of lilacs is one of the threads that outlined seasons in my childhood. I enjoy finding these beautiful blooming bushes every year to catch that "smell of May," and I try to paint them every year.
They are probably one of the most exciting and maddening color challenges for me to paint! Lilac season in California is actually in March and not in May like in Ukraine, and this year I visited a few bushes that I knew and found a couple of new ones in my neighborhood too (which is always exciting). But I did not get a chance to do a proper outing to paint them. So when I saw this beautiful bouquet in a local Trader Joe's, the decision to spend a week with these flowers on my table was simple! Hot weather made it a bit of a struggle to keep them alive, but frequent trimming, accompanied by a change of water and cold water mist, helped. These sketches are chronological - so the last one - quite droopy was the one before goodbye.
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