@artbyjeff Thanks. Wow, that's cool seeing an octopus---I've seen jellyfish, starfish and loads of shellfish, but have never seen an octopus here on the Puget Sound/Washington coast. A fortuitous sighting for you, for sure! Congrats!
@Mels Thank you for your kind words. I love a 005 micron pen!!! Used to use Rapidograph pens, but now I am lazy and use the Sakura Pigma pens....but they all give such a nice uniform line.
Some personable corvid sketches that emerged from my pencil.
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A colored pencil drawing of a turban squash. We made a curried squash, pear, and onion soup with it today! It was pretty while it lasted....now it's tasty!
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Pen and colored pencil drawing of a garden begonia.
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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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Jeff Syrop (@artbyjeff)
This is great, very expressive. I had the luck of getting to see an octopus in a tide pool here on the Oregon coast yesterday!
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@artbyjeff Thanks. Wow, that's cool seeing an octopus---I've seen jellyfish, starfish and loads of shellfish, but have never seen an octopus here on the Puget Sound/Washington coast. A fortuitous sighting for you, for sure! Congrats!
Kevin VanEmburgh (@kevn)
Beautiful.
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@kevn Thank you! It was fun to do, too!
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@Mels Thank you for your kind words. I love a 005 micron pen!!! Used to use Rapidograph pens, but now I am lazy and use the Sakura Pigma pens....but they all give such a nice uniform line.
Will (Bampi) Edwards (@Bampi)
WOW amazing work, time and patience eh?
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@Bampi Thanks for the accolade. I don't notice the time when I get into that fun "flow" state of doing little details.
Dean C. Graf (@DCGraf)
These are great creatures, and this is a great drawing.
Joselo Rocha (@JoseloRochaArt)
just wow!