100 Palettes Challenge // Palette #7 // Peony by @3ofpents

Today's palette comes from a fashion illustration in The Delineator magazine from 1906.

Like I mentioned in the previous piece, this is one of the palettes I was really looking forward to — I love a pastel rainbow. It's also the one I was thinking of specifically when I made the decision to go through them in order because I knew I'd use up all the palettes I really liked first and end up with a bunch that I really don't. Of course this one is early on in the book anyway! But honestly one of my least favorite palettes was also an early one.

I got the inspiration for this after watching an art asmr channel use inksticks to paint some watercolor flowers (sometimes the asmr videos are the only things that help our toddler get down for a nap, though usually they're more into the restoration videos). Not that I even tried to attempt doing anything watercolor-ish, but we have this beautiful peony plant by our porch (we actually have two, but one of them hasn't flowered for the past two years, sadly) and these colors are really just perfect for it.

I didn't get as much depth as I wanted to, but honestly I got overwhelmed VERY quickly. Like peonies in general have very densely packed, curly petals, it's one of the reasons they're such a popular flower. But this variety really does just look like a curly koosh ball set on top of a plate of petals.