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I started this for the 20 Minute Sketch group...however after 3 interrupting phone calls, I gave up...I think it took more like 40 minutes anyway...:)
P.S....The phone hadn't rung all morning...until I started the sketch...:)
Michigan grows wonderful apples...many varieties are grown here. I like these Ida Reds, but my favorite is still a good crisp sweet Fuji!...:)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
FUN BLOOMS
A BUNCH OF FUN
Here are the steps...
1. Wet paper
2. Throw/spatter in some paint, one color at a time, and spray with misty sprayer.
3. Tip paper and blow on it to get it to send out shapes
4. Drag a fingernail, or reverse end of brush, or stick through wet areas.
5. Let dry
6. Add more color as needed, using spray and brush to help make shapes.
7. Look for forming shapes to help them along.
8. Let dry
9. Find the shapes with pen and ink....you might need to turn the paper even.
10. Add more colors/shading as needed.
Here are the steps...
1. Wet paper
2. Throw/spatter in some paint, one color at a time, and spray with misty sprayer.
3. Tip paper and blow on it to get it to send out shapes
4. Drag a fingernail, or reverse end of brush, or stick through wet areas.
5. Let dry
6. Add more color as needed, using spray and brush to help make shapes.
7. Look for forming shapes to help them along.
8. Let dry
9. Find the shapes with pen and ink....you might need to turn the paper even.
10. Add more colors/shading as needed.
Friday, March 26, 2010
PRICKLY POPPY WILDFLOWER
WATERCOLOR & INK
Argemone pleicantha
Range
Throughout the Southwest deserts from California east to Texas and to northern Nevada and Utah.
* Sonoran Desert (A. munita and A. platyceras)
* Chihuahuan Desert (A. polyanthemos)
* Great Basin Desert (A. pleicantha)
Habitat
Sandy or gravelly desert roadsides and washes below 8,000 feet.
Flowers
White, papery flowers with a bright, single eye of yellow stamens bloom year round. Flowers grow to 3 inches wide and have 6 broad, delicate, wrinkled petals.
Description
Prickly Poppy is the name used for various species of the Argemone Genus, all virtually indistiguishable from each other. Members of the Poppy Family are characterized by flowers with numerous stamens and 4 to 6 petals.
This very branchy, pale green plant grows to 4 feet high and is covered with yellow pricklies. Long, very lobed, spiny leaves resembling thistles grow to 8 inches. All parts of this plant contain alkaloids that are poisonous. It is common throughout the West because not even cattle eat it.
Prickly Poppies are also called
* Thistle Poppy
* Chicalote
* Cowboy's Fried Egg
Argemone pleicantha
Range
Throughout the Southwest deserts from California east to Texas and to northern Nevada and Utah.
* Sonoran Desert (A. munita and A. platyceras)
* Chihuahuan Desert (A. polyanthemos)
* Great Basin Desert (A. pleicantha)
Habitat
Sandy or gravelly desert roadsides and washes below 8,000 feet.
Flowers
White, papery flowers with a bright, single eye of yellow stamens bloom year round. Flowers grow to 3 inches wide and have 6 broad, delicate, wrinkled petals.
Description
Prickly Poppy is the name used for various species of the Argemone Genus, all virtually indistiguishable from each other. Members of the Poppy Family are characterized by flowers with numerous stamens and 4 to 6 petals.
This very branchy, pale green plant grows to 4 feet high and is covered with yellow pricklies. Long, very lobed, spiny leaves resembling thistles grow to 8 inches. All parts of this plant contain alkaloids that are poisonous. It is common throughout the West because not even cattle eat it.
Prickly Poppies are also called
* Thistle Poppy
* Chicalote
* Cowboy's Fried Egg
SAND DUNE PLANTS..SURF THISTLE
Surf Thistle (Cirsium rhothophilum)
Status: California Threatened
Surf thistle often occurs in the same areas as beach spectacle-pod on the former Guadalupe Oil Field. Approximately 5,000 plants were observed in the 2000 survey.
Characteristics:
Surf thistle is a bushy, short-lived perennial plant that grows to a height of 1.5-2.5 feet. This member of the sunflower family is characterized by large rosettes of spiny, white-woolly, deeply lobed and undulating leaves, with whitish flowers that occur in dense heads.
Habitat:
Surf thistle grows in coastal foredunes, often on the slopes of transverse dunes at elevations between 10 and 200 feet. Surf thistle does not occur on beaches or further back in the stabilized dunes
Still missing the ocean and beach.....:)
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Status: California Threatened
Surf thistle often occurs in the same areas as beach spectacle-pod on the former Guadalupe Oil Field. Approximately 5,000 plants were observed in the 2000 survey.
Characteristics:
Surf thistle is a bushy, short-lived perennial plant that grows to a height of 1.5-2.5 feet. This member of the sunflower family is characterized by large rosettes of spiny, white-woolly, deeply lobed and undulating leaves, with whitish flowers that occur in dense heads.
Habitat:
Surf thistle grows in coastal foredunes, often on the slopes of transverse dunes at elevations between 10 and 200 feet. Surf thistle does not occur on beaches or further back in the stabilized dunes
Still missing the ocean and beach.....:)
WATERCOLOR & INK
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
SAND DUNE PLANTS..SEA HOLLY
SAND DUNE PLANTS..SEA HOLLY
Missing the ocean and beach today!
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Missing the ocean and beach today!
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Friday, March 05, 2010
IRIS IN MARCH
I believe the Iris comes in more blue shades than any other flower.
Especially the German Bearded like this one.
This is done with Watercolor Pencil and Ink.
Especially the German Bearded like this one.
This is done with Watercolor Pencil and Ink.
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