Calathea Plant

I was amazed by the diverse leaf patterns that can be found in the Calathea plant when I went out on the internet looking for reference files. This was my second house plant illustration for the week.

 

Snake Plant

This was Snake Plant was the first prompt for house plants this week. It was fun to play around with different texture brushes like the wood grain. It would have taken forever to draw that texture and I see Procreate as a fun playtime, not a sketching activity I want to spend hours doing.

 

Fiddle Leaf Fig Plant

I have been enjoying playing around with Procreate on my IPad. You can get so many different looks by using the different "brushes" that are available. Most of the illustrations I was creating looked like cartoons, which is fine, but I really like this more painterly style. This week I have been making illustrations of house plants based on prompts from Lisa Bardot's Making Art Everyday.

 

Rhododendron

 

I prefer to paint from life but occasionally I will paint from photos. This is one of those times. We have a purple rhododendron brush in the woods at the side of our house. Every year I plan to paint some of the flowering branches and just don't get around to it before they fade. Well, here are two practice blossoms and a promise to myself to paint the real thing later this year.

Peony Bud

I thought I would try a botanical sketch of this peony bouquet in my large Arteza sketchbook. Not sure why I thought I could do a botanical illustration on this paper. The paper is great for quick simple watercolor and ink sketches but the paper is rough and not framable painting quality. But it was fun. Also this paper is too rough for my good watercolor brushes but works great using nylon bristle waterbrushes. So I decides to just finish the sketch off with ink lines and no additional watercolor.

 

Fresh Lunch Veggies

 

We are still enjoying Blue Apron after about 4 years, maybe longer. It means 3 new recipes every week, so no need to plan every meal; the exact quantity of foods so not a lot of wasted food to throw out; and everything is fresh.

Kalanchoe Plant

 

Enjoying just making simple sketches of everyday objects from my life. This poor plant has gotten very "leggy" and needs some pruning and repotting.