Elizabeth Waddington lives, gardens, and paints in McHenry IL. She has grown every flower that she has painted. She paints to honor all the things she admires about flowers- their shape, luminescence and color. Elizabeth uses watercolors for their properties of being translucent and matte. She works in a monoprint style where she applies the paint directly from the tube onto a piece of glass, sometimes randomly,sometimes purposefully. After soaking the 300lb watercolor paper, she presses the wet paint to the wet paper. Next stages may include a latex masking solution which is rubbed off after drying. She then starts the detailing. Finally, she cuts the elements apart and collages a garden scene. Each artwork is unique and beautiful.