bleeding heart

Bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) was my favorite flower when I was little. Something about those dainty pink pendants still enchants me; I can just imagine Titania wearing a chain of them about her neck, or tiny fairies riding them up and down the stalk like gondola cars.

Watercolor on Arches cold-pressed paper.

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