Our sweet daughters were kind enough to send this bunch of flowers to my wife last Sunday, so the next day I sketched them. The flowers were for UK Mother’s Day…the Philippines has another Mother’s Day which I think follows the US date…so my wife get’s two celebrations each year. I think there is only one international Father’s Day though….dang!
Mon-15-Mar-2021
Most years I buy flowers for my wife on Valentine’s Day – we bought these together in Baguio and brought them home. I had to sketch them before they died. They were difficult to paint too as they were white, with just a hint of pale green/yellow.
Mon-15-Feb-2021
The #Melogallery #HomeboundSketching prompt for 15th May was “flowers”. As I am restricted to sketching in the evening (I am lucky to have work during the day) I couldn’t draw any real plants, so instead sketched this silk rose, which I think one of our daughters bought one Valentine’s Day years ago. The brown vase is another relic – an odd shaped piece of pottery I picked up from the venue where I did life drawing during my university years.
Tues-19-May-2020
This is my first sketch in my new sketchbook – lovely heavy paper, but as always it will take a little time to get used to the change. On Fridays we finish work at 4pm and it only takes me 20 minutes to get home, so I jumped at the chance to sketch this view from my apartment. Even so, the light was fading fast as I finished.
Fri-16-Mar-2020
I am back in Turks and Caicos and here is my first sketch done in the new apartment I am staying in (yes, I stay in a different place each time I come). In the centre of the living room is a little coffee table with plastic flowers and a clock…I guess the air-freshener is meant to provide the artificial scent?
Sat-4-Jan-2020
There are shells all over this apartment – and I just discovered two more, plus more plastic flowers, on top of the cupboard over the oven. I haven’t run out of things to sketch in my apartment yet, but I may do soon!
Wed-2-Oct-2019
Last Thursday I thought I was going to fall asleep, but then I remembered I wanted to sketch these flowers. Also a commenter on Facebook reminded me that this is a daily journal…so I can’t keep missing days – even if I did have an exhausting day stretching my mind around statistics and regression analysis! In case its not clear the flowers are reflected in both a mirror and the table.
Thu-27-Sep-2019
This sketch was done on the day of my fathers funeral – sweetpeas were one of his favourite flowers, which he always grew.
Thu-27-June-2019
It’s been 20 years since we got married (last Wednesday 27). I think asters are the traditional flower for a 20th anniversary but the flower sellers could only show me sad looking little daisy-like flowers when I asked. So instead I bought these gorgeous roses for my wife. Difficult to draw but wonderful to look at and smell!
Fri-1-March-2019
Here is another evening sketch. My dad bought my mum some more roses…a perfect sketching subject. On top of the cabinet is a little DVD player, which may have seemed fancy a few years ago but these days seems rather antiquated when so many people stream movies.
Mon-24-Dec-2018
