Anemone

My sweet husband recently brought me some purple anemones. So, though this isn't quite the season for it, I immediately thought of Emily Dickinson's poem:

Then a few weeks in, when my poor Anemone had dried out, I couldn't resist the urge to use them to paint. I've been reading a charming book recently, "The Pressed Plant," which is about the art of Botanical Specimens. So I've been drooling over pressed plants & plant impressions for the past several days. So here I painted the parts of the flower I wanted to imprint with watercolours & then I pressed them onto the page: