Spring Garden In a Pot (Table Gardening).

I love following flowers on a day-to-day basis, and every spring, I get some sort of bulb to grow, and this year, I got a whole little garden of bulbs to follow! It was a marvelous adventure, impossible to draw (at some point apart from a two hyacinth flowers there were 6 tulips and over 20 daffodils - all miniature and all sitting in a 6" pot on my table). But I got to draw some of them! Today I was moving the bulbs into "summering" storage and realized that I never shared any of these sketches - so here is part one of my selection  :) 

Another Vase I Made!

This vase has lots of things that I would do differently today but I learned a lot! See some notes around it :) I names it honey skep. 

Two Very Different Sketches from One Great Place

I got to sketch at the Allied Arts Guild this week and went with a plan and a friend. While catching up I completely abandoned my plan (without realizing it) and ended up drawing people at work in a really cool workspace. In short, it was a great sketching outing that needs part 2 to go back to my plans!

People Drawing!

I love drawing people - moving people, working people, sleeping people, faces. One of my regular outlets is portrait parties in real life or online - like pencils4tea and drawingisfree. But I've been skipping a lot of them lately - so when there was a chance to jump on a zoom call and draw some faces, I did so without hesitation. And what fun I had! The music (used to time each portrait) was super funny (some sitters had a really hard time not laughing :) Of course, my favorite was chicken singing one of the songs from the movie Frozen! In short - I should do it more often ;)

Here are some of the previous people drawings I did not share before - I only recently realized that I've been posting more of these on Instagram, so this is a little catch-up. 

Flanders Poppies in a Landscape

It is impossible to translate all the feelings a field of poppies gives. I enjoyed painting separate flowers and groups of flowers, but something was missing in what I was trying to say. That is when I knew that I had to try and paint a bigger view - and what a joy it was!