Simpson stopper is blooming and fruiting now; the flowers are incredibly fragrant! This is a quick sketch on cold-press watercolor paper with my Sakura Micron Pigma sepia pens. I added some watercolor washes during and after.
Rather than trying to be precise, I tryed for a more emotive style. Ha! Somehow I still reverted to drawing the leaves and flowers in a more descriptive way.
You can click on the images above to go to my Flickr photostream, where you can view them larger. If you'd like to see a more precise sketch of this shrub or small tree (leaves, bark, and berries) you can click here. Thank you for visiting!
Beautiful! I like the soft background and the "descriptive" leaves and flowers :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Teresa! I like the way the background turned out as well.
ReplyDeleteYou have captured this in a lovely way. I love the highlights on the berries and the white flowers. You've also done a nice job with the green background and differentiating it from the lovely green leaves.
ReplyDeleteThank you Claire! I appreciate your thoughts on this...I wasn't sure if I had kept the green leaves and background apart enough.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful page, Elizabeth.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kathy! It was fun to try something a bit different.
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