lilac love watercolor painting arches 300 lb cold press 10 x 14 diaxozine violet
The purple lilacs around here are done for the season,
but the white lilac tree in my yard is crazy full of tiny white flowers
that are filling the entire yard with such an amazing fragrance!
While my poor son is sneezing like crazy from all the pollen in the air right now,
I don’t dare pick and bring a bouquet into the house as much as I’d love to….
But I was inspired to paint some lilacs (purple is more fun!)
with that sensational scent wafting through my brain down to my fingertips
as I dripped and dropped and splashed and splattered Dioxazine Violet.
Can you almost smell them?
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
I’m joining my friend Charlie with these sweet smelling flowers for his #NatureDoodlewash challenge.
the creative life in between 
Ooh, you used my dioxazine violet 🙂 I love lilacs. We had lilac bushes growing in the yard when I was a child, and I adored them. My husband and I have tried planting lilacs, but the rabbits destroyed them before they even made a good start. Must find a way and try again! Until then, I can look at your lovely beauties. If only we could paint the fragrance, too!
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Hope you can try again and have better luck Judith! The smell when you just open the door is crazy! The white lilac bush has only tiny flowers, but thousands of them I swear! 🙂
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I definitely want to get a lilac bush. They are one of my favorites.
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Ditto the lilac love. Luckily not one of my allergic flowers! Beautiful start to the morning. (K)
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Lilacs are one of my faves! Oh to smell like a lilac…. 🙂
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So so beautiful.
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thank you Sylvia – I hope you have some nearby to smell. 🙂
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The lilacs here have come and gone. I brought some home with me from my mother’s house and they were heavenly.
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Beautiful Lilacs Jodi. I too smell their fragrance, so wonderful.
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Thanks Cathe! Such an amazing time of year to walk outside to that smell!
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gorgeous! one of my fav spring aromas!
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nothing sweeter than that aroma! 🙂
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so true!
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I LOVE the smell of lilacs! But I feel for your son, for unfortunately I am like him! I am not allergic to your beautiful picture tho 🙂
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Phew!
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Really beautiful, Jodi, and not an easy subject at all but you’ve done a wonderful job with this!! You are really coming into your own with your lovely florals!!! 😘🙇🎨👏😎😍🌻🌷🌹
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Thanks Laura! I’m trying… and having fun 🙂
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It seriously is awesome. I can see those little flower shapes, just love lilacs as I grew up with them. Oh the smell alone. That and honeysuckle. It’s like I’m a kid again whenever I smell them. 💜
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OOOOH Honeysuckle – can’t decide which is the sweeter smell!
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Right?!
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Mmmm….such a heavenly scent.
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Beautiful painting, Jodi! I can almost smell them. My lilacs (and all lilacs around here) didn’t bloom this year. 😦 I was really looking forward to seeing them and smelling them this spring.
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Thanks PJ! Wonder why yours didn’t bloom…?
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It happens sometimes. Some years the bushes are just loaded with blooms and other years that they don’t bloom at all. I don’t know the reason for that, but it is always wonderful when they bloom. Equally sad when they don’t bloom. My yard is filled with lilac bushes and I love their smell.
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bummer for the years they don’t – oh well – always next year 🙂
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That’s how I feel. Maybe next year the bushes will be loaded with those beautiful and wonderful smelling blooms.
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LOVE the lilacs Jodi!! The splatters seem to be your trademark, beautiful!! I wish I could smell them!
Jenna
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I can’t seem to help myself with the splatters! LOL!
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Lilacs are beautiful! Love the watercolor as usual – from your biggest fan! Happy Friday Jodi! 🙂
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what a sweet things to say – my biggest fan 🙂 You are a gem dear Terry! Happy Friday!
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Oh wow, this violet thrills me!
Jodi, I love how you added the depth to your beautiful Lilacs. I can see you thoroughly enjoyed each brush stroke. And, yes I can smell the fragrance all the way to Las Vegas! Very healing, thank you.
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Thanks so much Sharon! this was a challenge NOT to overwork more than usual. I might have a little bit, but it was FUNNNNN! Glad it conjured up the wonderful scent for you!
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watercolor + lilacs + purple! I’m in heaven! Do you offer this for sale, Jodi?
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How sweet are you, Nancy?! In fact, yes, we are listing this in our ETSY shop 🙂 – The original 10 x 14, prints and greeting cards. My daughter in law will add it soon. Our shop is McKinneyx2Designs. Thanks for the lovely compliment and making my day! 🙂
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Good choice for your shop!! I have perused it and you and your daughter-in-law do very creative stuff w/ a nice touch. (And I love Etsy!)
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Thanks so much Nancy! We are having a lot of fun with it 🙂
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This is my favorite painting so far! I love lilacs and yes I can smell them!
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Awh! Thanks Lynne! 🙂
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Gorgeous and my favorite color
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They are beautiful, Jodi! Your art is really blossoming.
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What a sweet thing to say – thank you Catherine!
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Jodi…your lilacs are beautiful and I love how your “spritz” some yellow across. I love lilacs and absolutely love this painting. 🙂 that pink on the outer edges really make them shine and gives dimension.
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Thanks so so much Margaret! Thanks for noticing the yellow! It was a last-minute decision to splash on yellow as the complimentary color to make it “pop” hopefully! 🙂
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They SMELLZA wonderful! 😊 Lovely lilacs, Jodi! 💜🎨🌺
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Yesza they doza!
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Yeah… full of LOVE for this! Sooooo pretty, Jodi! Love the life and energy in this. Excellent! 😍
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Thanks Charlie! I really enjoyed creating it – the looseness and some detail work…. a challenging piece (for me) 🙂
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I just LOVE the smell of lilacs! My grandparents had lilacs in their backyard, and whenever I smell lilacs it reminds me of going to visit grandma and grandpa on Sundays and for special events when I was young. Such great memories, thank you Jodi!
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Lilacs make me think of my grandma too. She taught me so much about nature and life and what to truly appreciate and enjoy! Glad to conjure up some sweet memories for you KR!
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I also love lilacs (and your painting of them is great!), but just like your son, my husband is very allergic to them. So that means I can’t plant a lilac bush in the yard, as much as I would like to. My grandmother had a huge lilac bush in her yard, and when I was child, I just loved the smell when it was in bloom!
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Seems they were a Grandma Thing :), which brings such fond memories – eh? Those darn guys and their allergies – eh? Thanks for the sweet compliment on the painting too, Ann 🙂
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I can almost smell those beautiful lilacs Jodi!! Almost!! 🙂 🙂
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thanks Linda 🙂
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Oh, this painting is outstanding, Jodi. Yes, I can almost detect that heavenly scent!
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Awh thanks so much carol !! ☺️
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Just beautiful, Jodi … love how the soft, loose colouring adds to the sense of that gorgeous scent permeating everywhere … simply gorgeous! Anita 🙂
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Thank you so much Anita! I sure appreciate your sweet, kind words!
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Incredible!!!
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