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Red Azaleas en Plein Air Watercolor 10-1/2 x 7   I usually paint from photographs; but today was so beautiful, sunny and nice I thought I'd try to paint my azalea bush that is just now blooming.  I've photographed it for several years now planning always with the intention to paint it; but it just didn't happen.  Until today.     Today was a perfect day and the azaleas invited me to sit awhile as they posed for me.  Palette colors were quinacridone red, cadmium red, aureolin, gamboge, burnt sienna, cobalt and UM Blue.   The dogwood tree in front of my home is also blooming and did this [...]