If you can't grow orchids .........

[Germinatorman]

paint them!
Last week at the Grand Rapids show, my watercolor of an Orange Masd. garnered a blue ribbon. This is a hobby of mine, combined with another hobby of mine. The colors are not quite the same as the actual painting, but close enough.

[Kmac]

Very nice, Don!

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Well done, Don! Congratulations on the blue ribbon for your orchid painting too! I love to paint and need to get back into that. We have a show coming up here in March that I would like to enter some orchid painting into and see how they fare. You have inspired me to get to work.

Cheers,
BD

[Ania]

Nice work!
Where did you learn to paint like this?

[Halloamey]

Wow that is a beauty !! I also like painting, I should try my hand at this ! Thank you very much for the inspiration.

[Germinatorman]

I really enjoy watercolor. Oil is also fun and colored pencil is very intriguing. I get motivated whenever our show chairman reminds me there is a show and I need to input new paintings. We really do need motivation. Also, another great motivation is if we would share our works here...........cmon guys, I have more to show - if you will too!

[Tmai]

Nice work, Don! Congrats on the blue ribbon!