Flower bouquet invention, iPad with ipencil drawing, 2/10/20

Imaginary flowers nosegay, (botanically incorrect), iPad with ipencil drawing, 2/10/20
These tools are handy and so called quick. Not better tho. Easy to make something quick and send out in a moment.
But we are all crazy if we really believe this pace of complication, chaos, and steps of process is sustainable... we'll find out I guess. Let us hope for the best, or simply believe that 'magic' will have to take care of it. I'm there in my head intellectually, but rarely on a moment to moment emotional basis. Matters always seem to work out eventually....I guess!
And, we now still have a bit of twilight left by 5:30pm!

Walk around the corner - some flowers, the brook, puddles - 8/16/19

Camera/phone ran out of space again. Lots of flowers I would have loved to take pics of. That will perhaps give the incentive to do this again.

First there were these puddles on the sidewalk. Of course - we did have a good short rain this morning...

There were some lovely patches of clover - the kind that tastes good. And some oak leaves knocked down. I hope it is too soon for color change.

Then there was the brook. I have not looked at that for a few years.

And a magenta flox type flower, with a lovely stone wall in the background. 

On my return home i stopped at a brush pile and took a spray of curling dead leaves. I may try to draw later.

The cat greeted me when I got home. The mosquitos were after us already so we did not sit

out.

Wildflowers, daisies... coastal landscapes, adult art class, 7/29/19

We started the daisies lesson with a series of exercises creating disks in various positions to convey a conceptual flower head placement in space. We colored the background areas without using outlines, coloring up to imaginary outlines - working with the negative space to create daisies.

In final drawings, students invented scenes and used some of the daisy exercises on a smaller scale to evoke the flowers' movement through space.

Spring Flowers - daffodils and tulips, adult art class display, 4/29/19

We started with several schematic structural versions of daffodils. These are to practice the basic structure and form of the flowers. Then we worked from photo references, (found on the web), as inspiration for the final drawings. Even the simple structural drawings colored in have their own beauty.

Photo courtesy of Deb Collemer: