mediterranean watercolors
These are the watercolor projects I’ve created for my next series of onboard workshops on the Celebrity Reflection in the Mediterranean. We’ll be traveling to ports in Italy, Greece, and Turkey, and I’ve put together these iconic images for passengers to paint:
Sunflowers for Italy (Girasole = Turn to the sun)
Greece’s national bird, the Little Owl:
The Lily-flowered Tulip for Turkey:
Do you know how important Tulips were for the 18th Century Ottomans? You can read about the Tulip Era HERE, and about Istanbul’s Blue Mosque (with more than 20,000 handmade ceramic tiles, featuring fifty different tulip designs) HERE. Also, take a look at these modern logos to see how the tulip’s importance lives on in Turkey:
