Plant Paint Challenge

 Not even a month ago, I drew something in a bottle, and saw the drawing of the "vase" to be lacking something.

Looking at this drawing, I love it so much. There's a lot more blending and depth in the flowers, and I've achieved a look in the vase that I like a lot!

The prompt image for this drawing comes from the instagram challenge #plantpaintchallenge.

I can see and feel myself improving.

You can see a time lapse video on my Tik Tok and instagram - see username @bizarrequilter

I saw roses painted this way....

 I saw roses painted this way, so I thought I'd try it with my pastels.

Another 33 images to go.

Drawing no. 7. A bunch of roses from the Blue Water plant show a couple of weeks ago.

I'd seen roses painted with a similar look, and loved it. So why not try with chalk pastel?

Yes.... I'm inspired by peoples winning flower and vegetable entries. Vegetables will definitely come.

The plant market

 We went to a local plant festival! 

Tropical plant sellers from all over gathered in Townsville. So we drove out to Bluewater Community Centre and took a trolley for our shopping. We picked up quite a few tropical fruit trees for our garden.

I also took photos of the floral display competition, and turned one of them into a drawing.

The glass bottle turned out to look a little too simple, maybe I need to make the clear bottle all white. It had a white background in real life, so I can start to see how the artist chooses the composition with alterations. Not all artwork has to be true to real life.

It's not a photo, we can edit the background without using photoshop.

I do like the way I created a wall and table cloth behind. There is so much to learn!

Make it Margaret Preston style....

 Make it Margaret Preston style, but do it in pastel.

These plants are blooming throughout my neighbourhood, attracting bees and birds. I picked up a piece bitten off by cockatoos and brought it home to my front yard for drawing practise.

I love the way the leaves turned out. 

I do see a bit of Margaret Preston style - she made woodblock prints of mostly Australian plants, then painted them with colour. The black background nods to this style.

You can see a time lapse video of the drawing on Tik Tok - username @bizarrequilter