Little Red Geranium

Flower-a-day #12 For today’s drawing I used pencil, colored pencil, watercolor and crayon.

Glandularia? Sounds more like a glandular problem than a pretty flower.

Flower-a-day #11 My colored pencils didn’t have anything close to this pretty color, so I tried watercolor. That was fun.

Yummy Summer Blackberries

Flower-a-day #10 The blackberries are so sweet right now. I love snacking on them in the late morning, and the vine treated me to this flower, promising more to come.

Nemesia: looks like a baby snapdragon to me

Flower-a-day #9 Pensitivity 101’s Three Things Challenge inspired me this morning. The three things to include in my post were: CREASE, BLEND, FRONT. I recently started doing daily inkblots again. Writing about faces in the clouds in my Nephelococcygia post the other day got me thinking about drawing faces over inkblots. However, I like theContinue reading “Nemesia: looks like a baby snapdragon to me”

Pretty Potato in the Wind

The Sunday poetry prompt #348 from Poetic Bloomings is Weather or Not. This prompt feels very timely since I took my flower pictures in the wind this morning. That little purple potato flower did not want to stop dancing to pose for my camera. Flower-a-day #8 And yesterday–the first time one of my closest friendsContinue reading “Pretty Potato in the Wind”

Ode to a red rose #SoCS

The Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt is “Ode.” Last week I was inspired to start my daily flower drawing practice and it made me draw every day which is amazing to me, and I love the black and whites photographs that I never would have thought to try before seeing zombie flamingos’ post last Saturday.Continue reading “Ode to a red rose #SoCS”

A blushing yellow rose

Flower-a-day #6

Today’s flower: begonia

Flower-a-day #5 Begonia

Space Alien Flowers

Flower-a-day #4

Flower-a-Day #3: Shocking Contrast Gladiolus

I really like how the black and white photograph turned out. The drawing took longer than I would have liked. I hope my drawing speeds up with practice.