Weekend Painting

I have started my Saturday painting classes again, and am loving it. I did quite a bit of painting this weekend. The first is the silk cotton flowers, I tried to capture the vibrant reds of the flowers and the many greens around it.

The next one is a picture of a plant...'the crown of thorns' which I did at painting class. The plant was put near a window with the light shining on it from one side.  I am really happy with this picture as I wanted to catch the lights and shadows and have managed to do that! I also got the really nasty thorns quite well!