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Micron pen and colored pencil on paper

I love gardens! I was recently at the opening of the Abbey Millennium Garden so thought I would produce a piece of work celebrating the new garden.

Rose Garden- Kitzel the One Eyed Cat

This is quite a ubiquitous scene, fresh garlands mainly of fragrant jasmine, marigold, rose and mango leaves, hang outside temples so the pious can buy them as offerings just as they enter.

Frog, moon and stars! Another one inspired by @moonchildillustrations and her #moontoberweekends prompt, this one combines two of them. Fortunately, I had to search for really cute pictures of frogs with their mouths open. By the way, what kind of music do you think the flies are dancing to? : .

Garden Sketch, Houston TX

At thre end of a perfect afternoon, some olives and rosé in the garden. pen, ink and colored pencil on paper

A flower cleaner on duty, inspired by the prompts of @CarsonEllis.

on paper

Pen and ink one panel gag cartoon.

Here is a sketch that I made while sitting in the garden the other day. Made with Micron pens on Guarro paper, 6x9 inches.

Using my husband's garden as an inspiration, I love to make up containers and plants.

Found a tidbit in the novel Grendel by John Gardner that got my creative juices stirring... :-)

Portrait of Jean Boggio by Gary Manzo

Mechanical Pencil/ Colored Pencils

Freehand drawing with pens made during a live drawing session.

The influence of the moon, drawn and painted with gouache and digitally retouched

Today we at Schmancy Mansion allowed our servants outside to romp. Our butler smelled the flowers and befriended a fox. Our nanny calmed her nerves in the garden. It was fine for them, we suppose, but now they have to get back to work.

Charcoal drawing, will be exhibited in my first personal exhibition

Sketch using Avant Garde photo.

Pen ink card pencil

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.

I haven't had time to draw in a long time because of school and other personal projects, but I recently finished this doodle. There's a color version of it that I'll upload tomorrow.

3" x 3" Pen and Ink

I don't normally paint trees. So I was surprised when my daily doodling produced this loose interpretation of the tree in my garden. I quite like it. Doodles are magical.