Hi Karen. I like this drawing. Orchids are so tricky! In so many workshops we advocate taking one apart if you can, and drawing all the parts separately to really understand what they are up to. Perspective and foreshortening will be tricky on these.
20 January 2022
Nice attention to detail and color here, Karen! Great suggestion from Sam to pull apart complex flowers like this to really understand their structure. I am really liking the combination of watercolor and colored pencil here to achieve that lighter pink color.
Hi Karen. I like this drawing. Orchids are so tricky! In so many workshops we advocate taking one apart if you can, and drawing all the parts separately to really understand what they are up to. Perspective and foreshortening will be tricky on these.
Nice attention to detail and color here, Karen! Great suggestion from Sam to pull apart complex flowers like this to really understand their structure. I am really liking the combination of watercolor and colored pencil here to achieve that lighter pink color.
I will sacrifice the last bloom on this plant and dissect it…..I have Dick Ruah’s book.
What’s his book, Karen? I don’t know it.
I learned about it from ASBA Conference (I asked a neighbour if I could pick a flower from her garden, to draw, and she turns out to be on the board of ASBA and convinced me to join!). https://www.amazon.ca/Science-Behind-Flowers-Morphology-Botanical/dp/B08FRHR9K9 Dick Rauh was one of the presenters.