I’m still trying to make time to sketch a bit every day. The every day thing isn’t working out but I am getting two or three done per week. Also still practicing the color finding with colored pencils.
This is a sketch of a wild lupine in standard pencil and the leaf with the colored pencil beside it. Greens are still really hard to do.
Here’s a different green of the snow on the mountain leaf. The sketch was done with water soluble graphite pencils. This one took several days to complete as I only have 10 or 15 minutes in the morning before I go to work.
Here’s a dried up leaf that I did this morning with watercolors and permanent pen. I had more time today to try to get a bit more detail into the sketch. I had a bunch of dried leaves but decided to start with just one.
Ruth Lane Art 
You’re really close on the greens, I really like the dried leaf.
Thanks Marilyn, there are so many greens!!
I had to peer closely at the screen to see which dried leaf was the real one. I think that the drawing looks more real than the real one!
A while back you gave good advice about ‘doing something everyday – even if it’s just five minutes’ and you’ve proved above that the advice is sound.
Thanks Lyn! Yes, those 5 minutes add up and “just keep practicing” is what I do for drawing.
I find greens difficult when dyeing hard to get a ” natural ” green.
Your variegated leaf was good and the dead leaf is brilliant.
Thanks! Greens are always a mixture of colors in nature and aren’t a solid color. That makes them tough to reproduce for sure.
Great work. I love colored pencil.
Thanks Judy!
Whow Ruth, the middle leaf is very very realistic!!!! Also a nice hobby to take with you on vacation 😉
It doesn’t need lots of space and you can work on it everywhere 😉
Thanks Jifke! Yes, sketching is definitely portable.