Poppies

Image Art by @Ilga

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Ilga Jansons

@Ilga

botanical, colored pencil, drawing

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© Ilga Jansons

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.

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    punka (@punka) Plus Member
    05/06/2020 @ 7:46pm

    Gorgeous! And being able to see the process is so cool!

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    Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
    05/07/2020 @ 12:53am

    @punka Thanks. Glad the process photos were useful for you!

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