I've been busy sketching flowers - a subject I haven't looked at in a loooong time. The landscapes/seascapes/trees etc will still tick along in the background but I really want to do a series of large canvasses based on these - and abstracting from them.
I've also discovered coloured pencils
I've always used them with watercolours in sketches to emphasise and add but never ever like this, in their own right. A friend in London uses them and does beautiful work and it made me look at them again and think about trying them. I'm hooked!
These are what I've been doing
studies done in the lovely walled gardens of a local museum, a gorgeous old Georgian house. (they're cornus kousa the gardener told me)
Watercolour with coloured pencil, the way I often use it
pale pink oriental poppies in a friends garden
then these are all in just coloured pencil
pansies from my garden
the centre of a red oriental poppy
pink oriental poppy
my tree paeony
artichoke seed head on white paper
artichoke seedhead on black paper
I'm at the research stage as yet, needing to really look at the structure and colours and form, working out how to crop them, what interests me etc
I'm going to start on 24 inch square canvasses and work up - I'd like to go to about 3ft 6in square with them.
