Mixed Media

Hi All!!

I wanted to share a process with you.

Here is a pen and ink sketch. Very loose.
And here I’ve added oil pastels, still loose and gestural.

Which do you prefer?

I love the process of both. One observing line and shadow, the other color.

Both are a bit abstract.

Thanks for visiting my blog,

Bev

Clematis May 8, 2014

Climbing Clematis

Weaves fragile tendrils around

Sending blooms to top!

Art Prescription:  There is something mesmerizing about vines. How they know to wrap and weave their way to get to where they are going. Wish my path was so clear…

Clematis 2014

Haiku March 31, 2013 Trout-lily

If Trout-lilys played

A musical instrument.

They’d be violins.

Art Prescription:  One of the main reasons I like sketching live is to feel the personality of a plant. As a certified botanical illustrator, we were taught to tell the plant’s story. Get your sketchbook and go out and draw…think you can’t draw? Just let your hand follow your eye. Get your brain, and what you think you see out of the way….just follow the contours of the subject.

trout lily cp