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Blackberry brambles everywhere. Constantly have to knock down the shoots that pop up all over the yard, and that's a prickly and tricky task. Even handling the sample for this drawing was difficult to manage without stabbing myself. Even the leaves have a wicked, spiny ridge of hooked thorns along the undersides.
Most of the flowers are long gone and well on their way to becoming very tart, lip-puckering blackberries (yummy in baked goods or jams though!), but I managed to scour the 6-foot tall hedges and find a lone holdout of fragile pink blossoms.
Wow. I'd love to see a walkthrough of this one. Is that a Moleskine (watercolour?)? Do you use watercolour pencils or is this all with paints? Beautiful work. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, you're correct. It's a watercolor Moleskine, and I've been doing all these botanical pieces with a combination of watercolors pencils, and paints, as well as a little bit of gel pen for darker borders and highlights.
ReplyDeleteJust exquisite!!! Are you selling prints of these botanicals?
ReplyDeleteNot yet, but I think I will. I might make a sub-site for these, since they're completely different from my fantasy work!
DeleteWhat an awesome page!
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the book "daughter of the Forest" where the girl had to weave sweaters out of a thorny prickly plant. Beautiful Stephanie. Are you using the pencils you received for all of these? The colors are amazing. Just love it!
ReplyDeleteYes, these are done with Derwent watercolor pencils, along with my usual watercolors.
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