The Practice of Botanical Drawing Discussion Board

I’m struggling to get the concave and maintain color.

Beautiful toning!

Lise, all these books look fantastic. Thanks for posting the covers.

Do you use the patterns you make? Like, for example in wrapping paper or fabric?

I like how you’ve given it perspective and depth by varying the shades of your two groups of leaves.

This is lovely. I don’t know this plant. Are they seeds hanging along the branch?

Donna, what tree is this from? So interesting. It looks a bit like jacaranda from mild temperatures. Hmmm, where are you? 🙂

Beautiful Bleeding Heart!!

no, still snow covered here in the catskills! no signs of spring : ( This is a drawing from one of my first botanical drawing classes I took 15 years ago -it’s a copy of the original.

Going to add other “parts” as soon as I get another tulip. 🙂

Not finished, wondering about the centers of the persimmon tips and the squiggles around the center.

Beautiful! One of my favorite flowers. Is it blooming already where you live? It snowed yesterday here in mid Hudson valley NY.

The diamond shapes def give the feeling of a lattice ! With flowers twined through it!

Thank you I have always love Pansy’s too

Yes! It’s sloshing around in my head😉😉!

The magnolias in Portland, OR have started blooming in the last two weeks. It is tough not to want to focus in on them right now! Maybe next year. I have so much to learn about magnolias.

So great to see the visitors to the tree. A really sweet addition to the botanical sketch book. I wonder if the birds visiting it will change with the seasons. The of kind tree I’ve chosen isn’t in my garden, and I haven’t selected a particular specimen either. I wouldn’t be able to keep a detailed record of the bird visitors, but I think this is…[Read more]

These have the makings of an interesting pattern if you’re so inclined!

Love these tulip leaves, Carol!