Using the list provided by Louise Gale, I completed a month of daily drawings in ink. I ended up watercoloring almost all of them; two were colored with markers. I wouldn’t choose to do that again. It gave me an opportunity to play with the new Altenew watercolor set which worked well for these drawings. I posted the first 15 here. Here are the last 16:
From top left to bottom right: silver birch, ranunculus, freesia, crocus, pine leaves, Pervian lily (also known as alstroemerias), Douglas fir, echinacea, lotus, peony, Corsican or Black pine, frangipani, cedar leaf, fuschia, hellebore, holly
When I told Tracy I wanted to lay them all out, he suggested doing it like the calendar. Unfortunately, I wasn’t as precise as I should have been in cutting the cards since they aren’t all exactly the same size. Getting them down reasonably straight was a bigger ordeal than drawing any of them. Nonetheless, I like seeing them all together.
It’s another dark and dreary day which meant that the light had to be supplemented, hence the shadows. I definitely don’t have the right spot to photograph anything this large.
This might be the first project of this kind that I’ve taken on and completed with so little stress. Doing a drawing a day, even while traveling, proved to be pretty easy. I often watercolored several at once which definitely saved time.
I think you can be really proud of this little lot. Were you good at art while at school?
Really nice – all of them & I like the calendar idea. Nice to know it was a stress free project, which means you’ll do more …
What a great idea Tracy had to display as a calendar! It’s wonderful to see them altogether. I have a couple friends who participated in Inktober which is a good way to discipline oneself. Yesterday at a small crafting store in Portland I was drooling all over at the various watercolor sets.
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