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Hung Sunflowers
Back to ink dip pen and collage for what was a complex bunch of sunflowers to draw. The ‘hung bunch’ is still something that interests me, and even if it means the drawing is a bit more compacted, I like it. There were a lot of lines and curves and contrast within this to keep…
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Blue Potato Bush
Procreate on my Ipad time again, this time it’s for a tree that’s in my garden. It has a pretty terrible name for such a beautiful plant. It’s flowering at the moment, hundreds of small purple flowers that look very nightshade-ish. I have no idea where the potato part of the name comes from. Hang…
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Pencil Pot
A really quick drawing, one thin watercolour layer plus ink pen. Very simple but exactly what I needed to do. This pot was handmade by my Mum many years ago, maybe 40 or so? It’s lasted this long, but incase anything happens to it, I’ll have a drawing capturing it usefulness and beauty! Okay maybe…
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Flower Book
A while back I liked the idea of drawing flowers growing from the centre of a book, so I set up a still life reference for it. It was shoved into my ‘visual diary’ album and pretty much forgotten about. Recently I pulled it out and made it into a quick ink pen and collage…
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Daffodil Face
This is what a day of boredom will do to you! I was playing around on procreate and thought I’d see what a face (I guess resembling mine?) might look like as a flower face. I already had a daffodil drawing so this is what came out of it. It’s very simple but I do…
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Hyacinth
Another procreate moment, it’s been fun playing around with it. Not more fun than feeling paper under my hand though, so it’s back to traditional for me! I miss mess and glue and runny paint and cursing the pens for running out too fast. Heh heh. Here is a video of the dots being made,…
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Daffodils
So, I have pulled out Procreate again and had a go. I figured the subject should be relatively easy so that I can focus on technique. My aim is to draw digitally as close to what I do analog as possible. I’m not sure if that’s such a great idea but it feels right. I…
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Floating Muse
There is an idea I’m chasing, but it hasn’t shown itself fully yet. I think it’s fairies. I imagine her floating softly and silently around a library full of old dusty tatty books bound in deep reds, browns and greens. Almost as if she’s underwater, she glides in and out of the books, her sections…
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nasturtiums again
Just when I thought my desire to draw Nasturtiums had gone, my garden burst out in a patch of surprise ones. It was too much. So here is an extremely colourful (for me, anyway) drawing of those little gems. Medium was schmincke watercolour, pigma micron 005 and collage on Saunders 638gsm paper.