Blue Rose, Humble But Especially Lovely Old Watercolor antique school alphabet and so contemporary

and so contemporary

I am not expert enough to date manuscript painting such as this definitively

I also really like the fact that she is dining alone

I've never seen one in matte gray (charcoal

Blue Rose, Humble But Especially Lovely Old Watercolor antique school alphabet and so contemporaryJust a single bloom, but this is among my favorite watercolors of late, just a small perfect thing. A blue rose I believe, labeled what looks like "japonica," which is indeed a type of rose the Kerria japonica, but that as far as I can tell is yellow Blue roses are in fact often used to symbolize mystery or the unattainable, since they do not exist in nature because of genetic limitations, so perhaps here the unattainable manifested! 7" x 5", very