A satisfying day tidying up the garden yesterday, as its winter hiatus draws to a merciful close, threw up some unexpected delights in the shape of a handful of Chinese Lantern (Physalis alkekengi) husks. I find this plant and its flowers magical and have returned to draw and paint it at regular intervals over recent…
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Keep an Eye on the Amaryllis #5
Probably my final go this year at capturing the lifespan of an amaryllis plant, this is the fifth in a series of sketches, made 12 days after the previous attempt (Keep an Eye on the Amaryllis #4), on 28th January this year. By now the poor amaryllis was well past its best – its flowers…
Keep an Eye on the Amaryllis #4
This study is a follow-up to previous sketches of the same amaryllis plant, and was painted 5 days after the last post (see Keep an Eye on the Amaryllis #3), on 16 January 2015. At this point the amaryllis was in full flower, looking at its blooming best. The 16 January painting, pictured here, was…
Keep an Eye on the Amaryllis #3
A follow-up post to earlier paintings of the same plant. By the time I made this sketch, 6 days after study #2 and 24 days after study #1, this red amaryllis was almost in full flower. I was intending to make this A4 study a more-or-less ‘pure’ watercolour painting with the merest of initial…
Keep an Eye on the Amaryllis #2
Picking up the drivel where yesterday’s drivel left off (see Keep an Eye on the Amaryllis #1), every day over the Christmas period this little amaryllis would continue to grow in spurts. Each day I would observe it on the window sill in the kitchen (the plant, not me) thinking, “I really must paint that…
Drawing Upon Life 