a place for Amanda's sketches and some random thoughts.
(P.S. More doodles can be found at the ARCHIVES section below.)
Horsetail (was "Plant Without a Name")
This horsetail (Equisetum) has the look and texture of grass, but knots on its stalks remind me of bamboo. I'm not sure which species it is; it looks like water horsetail but the one we have
- doesn't grow on wet land, and
- 1/3 of them are taller than 140cm (some of them are even taller than 170cm) .
My watercolor brushes arrived today, so of course I had to try them out. Not knowing much about watercolor painting, I went for the easiest plant (mostly drawing, not much painting) to test my brushes. I didn't control my lines well and each branch was thicker than the real thing. To fix my mistake, I used a brown technical pen to "trim" the branches down, but apparently it was a bad move.
Watercolor painting, my next frontier.
Media: watercolor, technical pen.
3 Comments:
Amanda,
I would bet "The plant without a name" has an ugly one "Calamagrostis Acutiflora".
Check for pictures around for confirmation and the following link for more technical details
http://hort.ufl.edu/shrubs/CALACUA.PDF
BTW, love your comments around the pictures and the ones on your blog ... ;)
keep the nice work
This is one of my favourites.
Huh? This lousy one!?
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