Birdflowers: Carnation - Jan.

The birdflower for January, Carnation. Carnations are deceptively hard to paint, primarily because they always seem to want to look like roses.

Carnation's eyes and tailstones are garnet, like January's birth stone. I suppose that carnation in its beak is a garnet-colored variety. Carnation's feathers are shades of pink, red, violet, white, and yellow, just like the flower of its namesake.

One more to go!!!

The rest of the birdflowers can be found here: [link]

_{Watercolor on illustration board, 9X12 inches}