A Flower from Our Garden

It was a beautiful day. I walked around our garden trying to find a good target to draw. Well, guess what? I was overwhelmed by the amount of information out there and couldn't find anything manageable to put on paper.

Then I remembered what Cathy Johnson said in The Sierra Club Guide To Sketching In Nature. I made a small paper frame and looked at our garden through the frame. Voilà, I found this little flower that was cute and interesting.

Still had trouble with watercolor pencils. All colors got washed out, even though I thought I had applied dark enough dry colors. (I also accidentally colored outside the lines on various places. *sigh*) So as usual, I applied colored pencils to intensify their shades.

David said the black lines made the painting look like a cartoon. So I plucked a leave for my next drawing.

Media: watercolor pencils, colored pencils, technical pen.