5 variations on a daylily

Preparing to teach a workshop about sketching from nature and creating designs. Here is the original sketch in my journal and 5 design variations. The numbers indicate what order I drew the images. Drawing from nature helps me understand the object, and notice geometric shapes. Then when I simplify the image, I can rearrange the shapes into a pleasing design. As you can see, the designs get further away from the original as I progressed. By number 6, you could barely tell it was a daylily unless you saw it in context with the other drawings.

Over the weekend, I attended two concerts at Tanglewood Music Center that included pieces of music with variations on a theme, so that was on my mind as I drew last night.

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teacups

more sketchbook art...

Lara's garden

My neighbor moved away, but I still get to enjoy the flowers she planted in our yard.

from my sketchbook.

repeat patterns

Playing with repeat patterns from my watercolor flower drawings. The spacing in the blue pattern is more balanced because the original drawing was more square-shaped. The original pink design was more rectangular-shaped. It took forever, but I learned a lot.

another birdie

dancing among the flowers...

more sketchbook

another sketchbook page...

sketchbook

more flowers in my sketchbook.

green

As the world turns white, my drawings are turning decidedly green...

sketchbook

Playing in my sketchbook to take a break from computer work...