In the garden

Sweet pea

Something from the weekend

More bluebells

Watercolour pencils

It was lovely to receive a complimentary parcel of goodies from Derwent Pencils recently!  The weather was so lovely yesterday that I thought it would be a good opportunity to try out some of the pencils by drawing some bluebells in my back garden.  

I started off drawing the bluebells with my usual materials to give me a benchmark.

 Then it was on to the first set of pencils, the 'Inktense 12'.  

(I used a Derwent waterbrush, which I already had, to 'mix' the colours)

I tried using the Inktense pencils combined with the 'Graphik Line Maker 0.8'.

 

Moving on to the 'Watercolour 12' set which has a different selection of colours.

Finally just with the Graphik Line Maker, a very thin one at 0.2.

 

Here's the double page spread in my sketchbook, which is a large Moleskine Watercolour one.

It was great try out some new materials and now that I have an idea of what can be achieved, I'm going to try the pencils out on location soon.

Thank you to Derwent for supplying the pencils.

Patterns

Having a play around with old images and making patterns.

The story so far...

As I'm trying to document the 'Croydon Saffron Central' project I thought it would be good to grow  a few of the Crocus Sativus corms myself in the back garden.  This is the progress so far...

In the greenhouse

Not mine but Myatt's FieldsPark greenhouse.

More detail on the beautiful London park at http://www.myattsfieldspark.info/

Fig tree

In a London garden

I've put together a compilation of some of my sketchbook drawings from the back garden and will be making them into an A2 print to include in the forthcoming exhibition.

tropical leaves

Back to the fuchsia

fuchsia

daisy, daisy

Thought I should draw these before I have to cut the grass.  

There's a Vine too at https://vine.co/u/1019355169420472320

Grape expectations

Another drawing of my favourite subject in the garden, plus a Vine at https://vine.co/u/1019355169420472320

buttercup

Peony petals

fading Peony

Rosebud

snail shells