#botanical sketches

[twofacedgods]

Sketches of a Persian Ironwood, and Spring in Cambridge

Spring has sprung in Cambridge, and so I'm once again venturing out into the gardens and fields that surround me, equipped (as ever) with iNaturalist, my handy identification app. It is the season for Common Brimstone, an uncommonly pretty butterfly that is lime green, but looks neon yellow as it catches the sun – I had not thought the name appropriate until I saw a few of them flitting outside my window at midday, brighter than anything else in the sky.

Cambridge, though not far removed from Hertfordshire in distance, sports an entirely different blanket of spring flowers; snowdrops and winter aconite as the cold first breaks, then daffodils and crocuses and squills forming blue carpets ringing old trees, and now as spring settles in, and the days grow longer and hotter, anemones and starflowers dot the green grass carpets. It is a floral scene against the twiggy umbellifers of Hertfordshire, younger fields to older woodland; no bluebells, nor cow parsely, nor forget-me-nots that occur in nettled margins besides the paths; only flowers, and ivy with its smooth, shiny leaves.

I'm going to see my favourite tree today in the botanical gardens - it is a Persian Ironwood, which I first came across in a tour of the gardens with my PhD cohort. This ironwood is a sprawling tree with a densely woven canopy, a latticework of forking, looping branches that is disorientating to follow with the eyes, for the tree is a self-grafting one; separate branches will meet and rejoin, from the same tree and from different trees (at which point they are called 'gemels', as in gemini – paired or twinned trees). A quick sketch before I leave - and a post to break the months long silence I have held on here!

[designbrowser]

Botanical Leaves - Sketched Florals by Madiwaso 

[jadafitch]

Red maples are starting to pop down in this of the woods.

[turndecassette2]

[dianux-27]

Botan!!!😼✨

[jackthevulture]

Sketchbook pages from the last 24 hours, some onions and a horsie :)

[jadeitor-art]

Do you like the colors of the leaves?

Which one? 🦋🍀🌼🍂🍁🌺🌸

Fun watercolor project I did on an accordion sketchbook. At first I struggled what to paint on it but I'm really happy with this final result.

[trippingthemoonlightfantastic]

Puppy Love

Watercolor On Birch Panel

2024, 24"x 18"

Red Dogwood Blossoms

[janasojka]

moon landscape - three available handmade books in here

[pothosrays]

from an assignment

[ryllen]

[ But i wish, the '"interesting" him' I am talking to right now, Hold some part of truth of the 'true him'. ]

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( a bit of thought after seeing their 2 interactions on x & x )

[jadafitch]

It’s that time of year again. 🫐🫐🫐

[ahintoftea]

Late night sketching

Instagram: @yellow.y.sketch

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[bobokitty]

BEHOLD! Another set done! This time it's blue...ish-haired favs!

...I feel like there's also another pattern to these...hmmm.......

Oh, and if you like my art, I do got a ko-fi set up~

[ko-fi]

[ritmund-jpg]

• graphic stuff from small sketchbook •

[tearmizu]

Art dump of some botanical watercolor studies in my Sketchbook