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Ilga Jansons

@Ilga

colored pencil, drawing, flowers

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Prismacolor colored pencil drawing of stylized begonias. This was fun, especially making the leaves have a satin texture. I printed this on card stock as a blank card to give to friends.

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    Hev Easley (@Heveasley)
    05/12/2020 @ 3:54am

    I love this one. It really glows.

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    Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
    05/12/2020 @ 3:40pm

    @Heveasley Thank you. My friend's plant, that I drew, was actually a white and pink flower, but I had a yellow and red one. Her's had prettier leaves.. So I used the form and leaves of one and the flower colors of the other.

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    Will (Bampi) Edwards (@Bampi)
    03/03/2022 @ 7:07pm

    @Ilga very creative love it

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    Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
    03/03/2022 @ 7:39pm

    @Bampi Thank you. Begonias have such an unreal, waxy surface, it really makes it easy to experiment with them.

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