In my neighborhood, there is a house where people LOVE growing artichokes. Some years they have huge plants, some smaller. I've been visiting this place for a few years now, left some artichoke sketches by the door during the pandemic as these purple beauties made my bike rides very special that year. This week I went back to check on them again. Looking for familiar and unfamiliar shapes and textures of leaves and stalks, and in the flowers. They always surprise me with the intensity of color and the joy of figuring out how they are built.
I started with a super quick ink sketch to get it out of the way and then spent some time looking at different parts of the same plane with gouache (used as watercolor mostly) and ink.
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