Cream Carnations Watercolour Study Art Print

Cream Carnations Watercolour Study Art PrintEven the plaster in here starts looking expensive next to cream. Three loose watercolour carnations sit on dusty blue green stems, washed onto an off white ground that already does half the work for you. Put it up and the room gets quieter, not busier. The off whites in the painting talk to your wall, the soft blue green stems pick up linen, ceramics and aged metals. Best above a bed, a small console or a bathroom basin, hung at eye level so the stems

oat or clay

or alone on a chalky off-white wall opposite the bed where you'll catch it first thing

plain backgrounds let the words do the work

the bold black background looks almost illegally fresh

a desk in a kid's room

It tempers harder furniture — black metal

and the whole thing reads as a quiet love letter to your favourite seat

and the corner where the dog lead actually hangs suddenly has a reason to be there

terracotta pots and brass fittings

Avoid hanging it next to anything heavily patterned

it lifts cleanly on premium fine-art paper

settles a hallway