Orange Echinacea
My latest journal entry is orange echinacea. I was going to leave it as ink but decided to drop in some watercolor.
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My latest journal entry is orange echinacea. I was going to leave it as ink but decided to drop in some watercolor.
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We make an effort every fall to try and spread the seeds but it can be challenging at times to have them come back year after year.
Also, if you haven’t enjoyed the scent from these flowers, you are missing out. Distinctive and intoxicating.
This rendering was done using a Micron 005 with sepia ink for the sketch and then a Pentel Water Brush with Daniel Smith Watercolour and a little Holbein white gouache. I use an ArtToolKit palette to hold my paint and my current sketchbook of choice is the Etchr Hot Press Landscape book. This is the A4 which has exactly 52 pages. One page for each week of the year. Yes, this will be a 5 year journal or so.
After 3 years, some of our bullfrog tadpoles are finally getting their legs. I had to draw one that was nearly done but still had the cute tail 🎨 ✍️
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For the latest edition of “Bugs and Coffee” we have psytalla horrida which is the largest assassin insect in the world. Once again, spotted at the insect exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Drawn and painted at Equator Coffee in Almont, Ontario over a latte and a molasses cookie. ✍️ 🎨
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A little watercolor sketch of the giant cave cockroach, spotted at the insect exhibit at the Museum of nature in Ottawa. Drawn with micron pens, and painted with watercolor.
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Sketching Notre Dame Basilica in Ottawa from a patio at the National Art Gallery. Sketched using Procreate and the iPad Pro.
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My journal entry this week is based on a photo I took at a garden centre where I was expecting to paint a flower 🙂 Yes, the june bug! Pentel watercolor brush in a hot press sketchbook ✍️ 🎨
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Calling this watercolor piece done after about 3 hours. This hyacinth macaw was created using a mix of watercolor and gouache on 8” by 10” black Legion paper. Hard to photograph. Looks so much better in person. Thinking of a series here 😉 🎨 ✍️
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Samaras from one of our maple trees was the perpetual journal entry for last week. What’s next? Thinking maybe an insect 😉 ✍️ 🎨
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