I love drawing flowers and especially botanical drawings. What I have recently been trying out is water soluble pencil crayons. Watercolour or water-soluble pencils crayons are a unique cross-over between drawing and painting. You draw with them as you would with any pencil or crayon, but then you run a wet brush over your drawing. This…
Tag: botanicals
More botanicals
A recent commission. I will never get tired of being asked to draw flowers. I love them, and I loved drawing these three. They have to be among my favourtite flowers so I was excited to have an excuse to draw them too! Hopefully they have found a happy home back in Ireland. Magnolia Pencil…
Disa
I am currently working on a series of botanical’s native to South Africa. There are such a wide variety to choose from and having a florist for a mother and a horticulturist/forester for a father I grew up with an extensive knowledge of our local flora. I wanted to draw something that not only reminded…
Toadstools
Amanita Muscaria with Betula leaves….. Sounds very fancy, but all it is is Latin for toadstools with birch leaves. My 4th attempt at Botanical illustrations. Also done on artists sketch paper with a combination of pencil and pencil crayon. The two mushrooms look like they have been drawn in pencil, but in reality they are…
An attempt at botanical illustrations
I have always been interested in trying my hand at botanical illustrations. My father was a forester and a horticulturist, my mother a florist and I come from a long line of fanatical gardeners so I guess it makes sense that this line of illustration would interest me. Initially I wanted to do the botanical…
artbyeileen 