Plant Studies

A few drawings to keep my eye and hand in: 

Coloured pencil, pastel, charcoal, pencil, watercolour 

Tulip Time

 It's tulip season and there are some extraordinary tulips in bloom. This is an attempt to capture one of them as it changed over time. Tulips just don't stay the same they open and close their petals and bend their stems to dance in the vase. Catching these changes in paint, ink and crayon. I tore up the drawing and re-assembled the pieces in an attempt to communicate my experience of the flower.

Elephant and Pink flower garland

Playing with layers in brushes on the iPad continuing the elephant theme - endless possibilities using repetition, mirroring and scale. 

A New Year Flower Mandala Dance

More digital drawing - planned as a dance the footprints turned into a spiral as I worked on the piece.

Lavender

Drawn from observation using a range of iPad apps to explore the fragrant brittleness  of lavender in a vase.

Lacecap Hydrangea

today's sketch: 
autumn in the air, 
fragile dry petals 
trembling in the breeze

 

cosmos pic

Here is a wee painting from my meditation diary in 1988.
It is a very small picture of a cosmos which is a daisy like flower.