Sketches! :)

[eller]

Soooo, today we had a bit of a Friday afternoon group trip... We went to the Rhododendronpark (in Bremen) and took our art supplies. Ironically, today, I was the only one of the group not working in color: I had brought my watercolors but a) was feeling lazy, and b) would have had to share the watercolor box, since some group members don't have their own paints.



Isn't this magnolia pretty? XD Funnily enough, there are enough magnolia trees in the park, and they're all blossoming, and yet, my friend I., independently of me, chose the exact same bloom to draw. (She did that after I had already finished my drawing and moved on - she had no way of knowing...) Great minds think alike?!?



This tulip was just starting to wither a bit... But I found the shapes very interesting! (Also, in this picture, you can see the material I used: two thin acrylic pens by Flysea and a broader white pen by Uni Posca. The paper is the Hahnemühle Cappuccino Book, A5 size.)



Oh, and this flower, the Americans among you probably already know - I didn't. This one was completely new to me! It's not native to Europe, so... Yeah, you probably wouldn't see it in the wild in these parts. It's good to have a park with a very enthusiastically maintained botanical collection, you learn new things every year! Anyway, I was super happy to learn a new plant, and immediately had to draw it from different perspectives! :) I was the only one to choose this flower, though: IT STINKS. Wow, it stinks.

Comments

[peasina]

These are breathtaking. And the exact same bloom! What are the odds!

[eller]

It was the prettiest, ahahaha! :D

[yhlee]

Gorgeous! I've always loved the way you use whites and darks on toned paper. :D

I don't recognize the stinky flower! But then, I learned my rather minimal botany from someone who doesn't speak English and who has been in Korea for the past few decades, so. XD

[eller]

Aw, thanks! :3
Stinky!flower is Trillium erectum, in the white version. Super pretty, but... Yeah. Stinky. XD

[yhlee]

Ursula Vernon, who is a writer and artist I follow on Twitter but who is also big into GARDENING, was talking the other day about certain, um, flowers in her garden that...how to put it...smell like certain specifically male fluids. I almost died laughing.

[eller]

XD XD XD
Now I have to wonder about the evolutionary advantage this brings to the plant...

[wayfaringwordhack]

That sounds like such a cool trip! And I love seeing the fruit of your labors. :D

I did recognize the trillium, not because I have seen it in real life. I once red a fantasy book with Trillium in the title, White Trillium maybe (been decades), and looked up the flower. :P

[yhlee]

Black Trillium? It had like three authors - Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton, and Julian May. The sequel was Golden Trillium or Red Trillium or something like that; it might have been a trilogy with different colors each time.

[wayfaringwordhack]

Yes, that is exactly it! I knew it had a color but was too lazy to look it up. :P Thanks

(ETA. Given my previous message, I see I wasn't always so lazy ;) )

[yhlee]

No worries! I mean, it's ALSO the name of a PLANT, it could be hard to Google.

My nightmare story of being told to "find a link for this" was when I was a copy editor at the now-defunct Internet Review of Science Fiction. There was a literary magazine referenced...called Visions. No link given, the author didn't have it. COMPLETELY unable to find a definite link for that specific zine based on the information I had. It felt like every doggone high school in the United States had a school magazine called Visions!

[wayfaringwordhack]

Ugh, that DOES sound like a nightmare. LOL

[eller]

Thank you! :) Heh, I never heard of that book, either... But, interesting to know!

[goss]

Love how these turned out! :)

[eller]

Thank you! :)

[minoanmiss]

*delights in your art*

[eller]

YAY, glad you enjoy it!