Christmas Cactus for Christmas

[eller]

This is a watercolor ATC I painted for Smellabi. The profile said something about succulents, and, well... I considered the 'Christmas cactus' the most appropriate succulent for Christmas.



I had to take a photo of the finished painting instead of scanning the thing because of the (artistically questionable but certainly very Christmas-y) decision of painting the whole thing on glittery paper (Paul Rubens sparkling watercolor paper, cold pressed). The camera killed the background gradients, but it couldn't be helped. Anyway - I had a lot of fun with this. As you might have noticed, flowers are my comfort zone. :)

Comments

[light_of_summer]

Looks great!

[eller]

Thank you! :)

[yhlee]

This is delightful!! :D :D I love how lush the colors are.

[eller]

Thanks! (I drowned the paper in so much color it's a small miracle the sparkle still shone through. LOL)

[minoanmiss]

This is so lovely!

[eller]

Aw, thanks! :)

[wayfaringwordhack]

Appropriate and beautiful.

Sparkly watercolor paper: I had no idea there was such a thing. :P

Merry Christmas.

[eller]

Thanks! :) Yeah, as far as I know, there's exactly one manufacturer of sparkly watercolor paper in the world... I wonder why. XD
Merry Christmas.

[dirty_diana]

Gorgeous!

[mekare]

There is sparkly watercolour paper? *mind is blown* wow, I have to look that up. This is a lovely rendition of the Christmas cactus!

[eller]

Thanks! Yeah, when I heard there is sparkly watercolor paper, I simply had to have it. By watercolor paper standards, it's pretty mediocre as it buckles a bit when wet (but flattens again after drying), but, IT SPARKLES!!! :D

[goss]

Lovely! ^__^

I never knew there was such a thing as sparkly watercolour paper. How cool! I bet it looks amazing irl.