My friend Helen sent me a pad of watercolour paper made up into postcards: blank on one side with address lines and a stamp-square on the other side. Something about those little pieces of lovely paper made me want to get out my paints, so I made some postcards to send to friends. They are faux-scientific cards: I tried to draw in a very controlled way, but it didn't last for very long.
The poppy card was inspired by my garden: the first poppy in there opened up today. It's so big and dramatic and still a little wrinkled from its weeks spent tightly folded up in the bud. I don't have tansy or violets in the garden, but I can dream.
