On Saturday I will be travelling up to Leicester for the day to go to an Institute for Analytical Plant Illustration (IAPI) meeting, Grasses masterclass, at the University botanical gardens. I am looking forward to this as I have only just joined the group and this is my first meeting with them.
Monday will again be a very early start to arrive at Goodnestone Park Gardens in Kent for 09:30 in the morning. I am teaching at one of the Botanical art workshops arranged by Field Breaks and hugely looking forward to it. Goodnestone Park is a lovely place to do botanical art and the gardens contain a lot of subjects! Already I know some of the students and some use watercolour and others coloured pencil. I enjoy this mix.
But I have started another picture. I am still doing the initial sketch! But the final picture will be in pen & ink. I have another two-day workshop 1-2 October which will be pen & ink. How far I will get with this picture by the start of that workshop, I don’t know – but it will be useful having something on the go.
So far I have only started sketching it. Guess what it is!
gorse or broom please miss ?? or vetch or ………. love meredith
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:20:32 +0000 To: meredith_robson@hotmail.com
I’m glad you are following the lesson Meredith!! It’s Bear’s Britches, or the scientific name is Acanthus. It quite a huge plant at the lower end of the garden.
I guessed Acanthus! but you already told us…… A very prickly and spiky character, grows well in my dry East Anglian garden, in fact it’s a pain to get rid of. A large challenging draw, I look forward to seeing its progress.
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