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A Few More Wildflowers

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I have been doing a bit of sketching in my tiny notebook when I get a chance. Only three more sketches so the notebook isn’t getting filled up at a very fast rate of speed. I’m planning on using these sketches as a basis for free motion machine sketching on fabric.

MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERAThe bitterroot is the official flower of the state of Montana. I have actually never seen one as far as I know. They don’t grow around my house.

MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERAI’ve seen quite a few of these Glacier lilies in Glacier National Park. Occasionally I’ll see one up in the hills behind my house too.

MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERAI’m not sure I’ve seen this one either but I liked it. I found a site of U.S. Wildflowers that separates out which wildflowers grow where. It has nice photos and information about the flowers. You can find your own state and see what flowers grow near you. It’s been very helpful because I don’t know hardly any of the names of the flowers that I see.

 

 

 

Tiny Sketchbook

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My husband was cleaning out a cabinet last weekend and found a small sketch book. He gave it to me and I thought I would try to fill it up with sketches of wild flowers. I really enjoyed sketching flowers last summer for my stitch class homework so I thought I would do more. I want to use the sketches as a basis for small free motion embroidery pieces.

Sketch Book

 

Here’s the sketch book. It is much smaller than I’m used to and is only 3 1/2″ by 5″. It doesn’t have very sturdy paper so I can’t put much water on the pages but it works very well for the water brush that I use which doesn’t put out much water. I sketch in pencil, draw over the lines with a permanent ink pen, erase the pencil and then color in with Inktense pencils by Derwent. After coloring in, I use the water brush to wet the ink a tiny bit.

Indian Paintbrush Sketch

 

I’ve only gotten a couple of sketches done. I thought I would concentrate on wild flowers that bloom in Montana. This first one is an Indian Paintbrush. We have lots of these around the woods by our house.

Lupine SketchThis is the sketch of Lupines. I have tons of these around the house and in my flower beds. Most of them I haven’t planted and they just keep spreading. The deer eat them occasionally but usually only when there’s nothing else to eat. I have to go to a continuing education class this weekend but I’m planning on doing some nuno felting tomorrow.  I’ll let you know how it goes!