Birgit oconnor biography of abraham
How to paint lilac flowers in watercolor....
It was a perfect way to begin and even more important, it introduced me to Birgit O'Connor, whose floral watercolor paintings are breathtaking.
My name is Birgit O&#;Connor. I was born in Hamburg Germany and came to the United States when I was 10 months old. My father was a master lithographer and my mother was a housewife and an amazing photographer. One uncle of mine in Germany was a gold medal watercolorist and another aunt here in the states was a graphic designer and watercolorist, so I guess you could say it runs in my blood.
I was an only child and never felt that I was very good at academics, but excelled with painting, arts and crafts, not to say better than anyone else, only what I was best at.
Even with all of the creativeness that runs in my family, watercolor always eluded me.
After the birth of my first son, I would stay up late at night and do pointillism paintings of animals, which helped me with perspective.
At times, I would try to pick up watercolor again but had no idea why my color was muddy, and the brush didn’t do what I wanted and why I couldn’t get that luminous stacking of color and transpar
