Thursday, July 15, 2010

Simpson Stopper


Simpson Stopper, originally uploaded by Elizabeth Smith.

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!

6 comments:

  1. Beautiful! I like the soft background and the "descriptive" leaves and flowers :-)

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  2. Thanks, Teresa! I like the way the background turned out as well.

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  3. You 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.

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  4. Thank you Claire! I appreciate your thoughts on this...I wasn't sure if I had kept the green leaves and background apart enough.

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  5. Thanks, Kathy! It was fun to try something a bit different.

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