botanical

I’be been sketching my toy cars and trying to imagine how plants might interact with them

I m losing you. You moved. But you gave me my power. You made me grow. You empowered me. We found magic together. Now I’m alone. Surrounded by magic. I m magic. As you are. But now I’m alone. I still can feel you. I know you are my twin. But the words are missing.

I live in central London, so I sometimes dream of a more nature-filled work space

Summer came early for us this year. This little creature visited my garden and couldn't help but doodle him!

Inspired by lockdown walks and pretty gardens

On my very first sketchbook, the flowers in my mind bloomed from the ink of this pretty Sakura Pigma Micron PN (Sepia).

This is my first plant abstract in over six months because college takes up all my time during the school year now. This one was supposed to be more pastel, but the scanner washed out some of the lighter colors.

This piece was made only by using sharpies and then red paint. I was inspired by Julia Hill`s beautiful work to create this.

Remote house, mountain, hand drawn illustration

I entered this one in the pre/post quarrantine challenge but it is part of my new journal. which will be full of flowers and flower quotations. Using Derwent inktense pencils.

Poppies are among my favorite flowers---vibrant AND delicate. Great swaths of "bread poppies" garnish our garden. We harvest seeds for lemon-seed cake and poppy-seed rolls. (No, we don't harvest that other stuff.) They reseed generously and we have beautiful crops of red and purple flowers each year. I've been working on this colored pencil drawing for the past week. Enclosed are some images of the progress over that time.

The Cottage

Ambiguous foreign botanicals

Watering scene, hand-drawn illustration

Botanical garden flowers - Watercolour and some gouache. 5" x 7" cold press finish watercolour paper.

foxgloves and poppies (taurus flowers!) - a section of a piece i did for a friend's birthday!!

Greenhouse

An exercise in working up leaves and mixing greens.

Magnolias are spring harbingers in our garden, as well as our annual ornamental cherry display. Star magnolias are over, tulip magnolias are in full swing, and the occasional Southern magnolia is starting. Perhaps I should have done this with a gouache paint, but I used colored pencils. Oh well. Outlined after with various sizes of Pigma Micron pens. Our garden: www.edgewoodgarden.com

The sketch is based on reference photos of different blooming trees. Guess, no botanical realism here.

This is one of my artworks in high school. I will regularly post my previous artworks and some new daily artworks. If you like my artworks, follow my Instagram account the.rainmaker_

Drawing of some of my neighbor's many daffodils. Time lapse video here: https://youtu.be/7Sce_O5QxLI

Colored pencil drawing on bristol of a golden pothos clipping in a glass of water. Visit https://youtu.be/5MZRA0jmGD4 for a time lapse video of the making of the drawing.

Annuals are encouraged to seed in the less formal beds in our large garden. We tend them, photograph them, and I draw and paint them. This is a colored pencil (Prismacolor) drawing of one of our seedling poppies. It was an odd form. Not exactly a single, nor a double and lacked the common cross markings in the throat.

Micron 005 pen doodle of imaginary leaves and berries, then colored in with Prismacolor pencils.