I picked this blossom up near our apartment and thought that the colours are so beautiful that I had to try and sketch it. I used watercolour pencils, watercolour, a tiny touch of ink and a yellow Posca pen to do this one. According to Wikipedia the tree has been nominated as among 100 of the “World’s Worst” invaders – it is not native to the Philippines but is widely planted as an ornamental tree.
Tue-28-Jan-2025
These days, every time one of us gets flowers, I sketch them. These pink roses, carnations and daisies were given to my wife for her birthday, by our daughters. I sketched them using #Derwent watercolour pencils and a little bit of ink.
Tue-9-Jul-2024
That’s all of my life drawing for a while (some people who follow me, may feel relieved!). These are not flowers that are made from wax, I just tried out a different technique for a change and used some ancient wax crayons and wax relief with watercolour to draw this. I got these flowers (and some cinema tickets) from my daughters, for Father’s Day.
Thu-20-Jun-2024
My wife get’s to celebrate two mother’s days each year (she deserves it), as our daughters are half Filipino and half British. The Philippines celebrates Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of each May. However in the UK it is celebrated about three weeks before Easter (rooted in the Christian observance of lent). These are the flowers our daughters sent on 12th May. For a change, in this sketch I used watercolour pencils (they are all #DerwentStudio except the purple violet which is #FaberCastell) and used negative space to show the white flowers.
Fri-17-May-2024
Here is a sketch of the flowers I got for my birthday last week (from my daughters partner). Even the cats got excited with a new cardboard box (that the flowers came in) to play in. Not only did I get flowers but also cake (one with the flowers and one delicious homemade coffee-walnut cake – see next post – from my wife) and a bottle champagne! Thank you to everyone who greeted me and of course for the the flowers, booze and cake.
Wed-27-Mar-2024
Back to a sketch using some of my under-used art supplies. My wife was away on the 14th but I bought some flowers for her on the day she got back. I think these are Chrysanthemums. I used #DerwentWatercolourPencils to sketch this along with some #MontMarte watercolour marker pens.
Sun-18-Feb-2024
I like to sketch things that remind me of what happened each day, if I can (I have a useless memory). This rose was given to us by two young girls (now young women) who used to live in a nearby apartment and were good friends with our youngest daughter. We haven’t seen them for quite a few years but the other day, out of the blue, they rang on our doorbell and popped in for a quick hello, as they were visiting the Philippines. They brought this rose as a little gift – how very sweet of them, after all these years.
Thu-15-Feb-2024
As usual I am behind with posting sketches, but here is one of some roses we were given at the wedding we attended in Baguio. I’ve never seen so many roses at once!
Thu-7-Dec-2023
Here are the flowers that our daughters bought my wife on Sunday. Lovely pink daisies and carnations…difficult to sketch though! Plus our crummy printer refuses to scan pink properly for some reason.
Tue-16-May-2023