Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Days 103 and 104

A friend of mine gave me these snow drops to plant. I am always anxious for Spring to start so I mentioned that I was looking for an early blooming Spring flower. She remembered my comment and divided her bulbs after they were done blooming for the year.

sketch of snow drop foliage
sepia pen in cahier pocket sketch book
copyright 2010 Stacy L. Rowan

 I will be excitedly looking for them to come up next year. Only problem is I already forget some of the places I planted them. I know I planted some around the mailbox. The rest went in the back, by the patio I think, but I'm not sure of the exact location.

This is the shovel I used to plant the snow drops the day after I got them.

shovel sketch
gray ink in cahier sketch book
copyright Stacy L. Rowan

I experiemented with some new gray brush pens for this sketch. I have a set of six gray pens - 3 warm grays and 3 cool grays. I bought them hoping that the range of grays would allow me to do more shading on my ink sketches. I think I need some more practice with them.

2 comments:

Jennifer Rose said...

always fun seeing the snowdrops when they come up, and even more so when you don't know where they are :)

i think you did a pretty good job with the shading, it does look like a handle you can hole in your hand

Mary said...

Nice sketches Stacy, I love the spontaneity of countour drawing.