whiteknight wood forest

This is one of the watercolor drawings I did when I was in England.
British woods are full of sunlight and beautiful green colors in all kinds of shades and weather is gorgeous and this is important...no mosquitoes!!
There is a small forest called whiteknight woods( sorry I do not know the difference between a forest and woods;  it would be so helpful if someone give me a little explanation)in the neighbourhood and I really liked visiting the place during our one-year stay in England.
The tree in the center is a horse chestnut in full bloom of which flowers  looked like a lot of candles lighting in the tree. 

blue bell fairy

This is bluebell fairy which I painted in watercolor after I first saw bluebell underneath the trees in spring, in England.
It is magical to see so many small blue flowers in bloom like a beautiful blue carpet underneath the trees in the woods in England.
They were actually bells ringing out for joy of spring!
Thank you for watching my work.

snowdrop fairy

We are heading straight into hot and humid summer now, but as some lovely and gorgeous summer photos of England which I watched in some blogs last night reminded me of the wonderful scenery and the time we had in Reading, I am going to post the snowdrop fairy which I drew in watercolor today.

This is one of my favorite fairies as you see its my profile image.
Snowdrop, I feel, is maybe one of the fastest messengers of telling us  coming of the spring. I tried to express the awakening of its spring messenger from deep in the cold and freezing soil.
hmmm, its so difficult to explain what I want to tell you in English.
Yet I am going to give it a try, so I would be  happy if you read it and watch my works. Thank you.

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watercolor painting: an old town in England

In fact, I used to live in Reading, Berkshire, England for one year.
It was two years ago, and It was my first visit to England.
I had experience to live in the USA long long time ago when our first daughter was a baby; and as I had such experience to live in the English- spoken foreign country for a while, we were not very worried when we came to the GB very much.
However, in reality, it was kind of a  cultural shock to both of us!
Well, they speak English, but not the kind we knew;  we could not make out what they spoke; it sounded like totally different language. Later on we got to know that many English words itself as well as pronunciation are different.
But anyway, the towns are beautiful and countryside is so attractive with a lot of trees and flowers and small and cozy country houses.
Today's my watercolor picture I am going to show you is a small country town which is somewhere around or in Berkshire.
I drew this looking at a photo I had taken.
I hope you like it :)

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