Not too bad, but I wasn't feeling in the mood to do a lot of fine detail work, so they aren't as good as they should be either. The pen and ink drawing I did last fall of the black eyed susan's is better. But then the black eyed susan's don't have as many petals as the ox eyed daisies do so they were a bit easier to draw.
I had picked a variety of flowers so then I did one page of sketches of some of the others. Just an aside, I am not in the habit of picking wild flowers, and I certainly wouldn't pick any native or endangered flower no matter where I found it. Most of my flower drawings are done from Photo's. However for this last study exercise I needed to be able to view the flower from different angles so I needed real flowers. Most of these are your standard (for here in MA anyway) Alien plants not native. These will spring up in just about any waste field, so I consider them available for picking.
left is I think a knapweed of some sort
Top right - Spring Vetch
bottom right hoary alyssum
After the flower drawings I decided I needed to do some portrait sketches, magazines often have photo's of their article contributors so I used 3 of those to do the sketches below. Didn't spend a lot of time on them but all in all I was pleased with how they came out.
From June 2009 Discovery Magazine
From June 2009 Discovery Magazine
Other than these sketches my main focus last week was working on some quilting projects. Nothing new finished, just making progress with several projects and trying to do those last finishing details on a couple of the small quilts I recently finished, like putting on hanging sleeves and labels.
Hopefully I will have more images next week.
Hopefully I will have more images next week.
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