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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

My hammock waiting for the new tree leaves to fill in the shade. Yes, there is an exercise ball my son brought out to the garden.

My friend Steve from the art studio suggested we do studies in blue in honor of the #lightitblue campaign. Just when I was needing some inspiration! These are the late afternoon tree shadows at the foot of my garden.

Hummingbird sage in my garden

Another fanart of Violet Evergaren

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.

Fanart of Violet Evergarden

After a gorgeous sunny day in the garden, the wind picked up in the late afternoon. Too windy for a walk, so I drove my son to the GG bridge for his nap and stopped at the welcome sight of St. Ignatius on the way back.

Sharpie pen (fine) on white paper • #april #growgardengrow

i use watercolour pencils for this drawing, they are very beautiful, but very tricky animals to understand

Little snapshots of my garden yesterday. I added a little color today.

Homegrown elephant garlic drawing done in graphite pencil (H and HB). I enjoy drawing little roots and entanglements---following each one to its logical conclusion. A little OCD, I know.

Sugar lift etch and aquatint print from pencil sketch

This is the forsythia fool's gold I asked the garden center to put on hold for me just before the governor's statewide shut down came through. I hesitated to bring it home because I had already bought 17 plants in anticipation of the isolation.

Prismacolor pencil drawing of Primula vulgaris.

Pen and colored pencil drawing of a garden begonia.

Shawn wins best in show at the man-dog world championship.

First attempt at using watercolor pencils.

This Frog Monster has created a homemade hovercraft.

Acrylic on wood

Zlug is a slug monster wizard who can shoot powerful sparks of positive energy to help many people feel a little better. Thank you, Zlug

This cool frog monster is a master inventor. Here he is riding through town on his homemade motorcycle.

hey steve are we supposed to call somebody when that bin is full or what

This frog monster does its best thinking when it's strolling along on its colorful bicycle.

Slug monster child excitedly holding caveman head balloons.

The Garden of Ede. I sat down at the dining table and drew the garden from that perspective. The city is called Ede. It was on the 9th of December on a rainy day. Typical Dutch weather.