Winter Bouquet

Yesterday I added two pink carnations and the open lily to the freesia sketch. It's interesting that by sketching the flowers separately and only some at a time the bouquet looks quite different.

 

Freesia flowers

At least I think that is the name of these flowers. There were 4 of them in the bouquet I have been painting from. The paper in this Arteza sketchbook is OK for sketching but not fine quality watercolor paper. The sketchbook was very reasonably priced. It is perfect for sketches.

 

rose buds and white mums

More flowers in my large Arteza Sketchbook. There is a nice variety of flowers in this bouquet my son gave to me. Yesterday I sketched the dying roses buds. Then today I did the white mums that remind me of shasta daisies. 

 

Butterfly White Pole Plant (3 different views)

 

I saw a challenge on YouTube, draw the same object from 3 different points of view. So I chose this little potted Butterfly White Pole Plant. I had to go out and find the name of this common house plant.  It came in a pot with some other plants at Christmas time a couple of years ago. It must be very hardy because not only is it still alive I divided it when I repotted it and the other one is doing well also. Well, at least they are both alive.

view at eye level

view from above

view from below

Scarlet Red Ink

 

I received a present of 2 bottles of MontBlanc Scarlet Red Ink to use in my MontBlanc Arthur Conan Doyle fountain pen. The text on the box was drawn with my pen and this ink. This little sketch is in my new large Arteza sketchbook. The weather has been very cold the last few days and now it is snowing. So I am not getting out to photograph my watercolor sketches. The outdoor lighting is so much better than my flatbed scanner. But I want to post more so this will have to do. 

Gerber Daisies

 

Not quite keeping up with my daily page sketch. I did this ink sketch of these flowers yesterday and started to add watercolor. But it was today before I finished. The vase could use a table to sit on for grounding. But I am posting more regularly.

Blue Anemone

I bought 2 Arteza 8.3"x11.7" cold press watercolor/mixed media sketchbooks last year. I had hopes for sketching in ink and watercolor every day, filling a page a day. Well, maybe I will meet this expectation before 2023. This little flower only filled half of one page.