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Art wise...stressing out a bit as usual. The time has come for me to decide upon my final composition for my Botanical Illustration course. The problem is I have to decide this week before the flowers die on my cyclamen persicum. And I am meant to paint the flowers now before anything else and what if I put them in the wrong spot and then trying to paint in the leaves and seed pods after looks a bit knaff? I guess I just have to go for it. My Aunty, Lynda Strahan, sent me a CD of some of her Australian botanical drawings which are pretty delightful. She says she is not professionally trained in botanical illustration so I can show her how the 'real' thing is done once I finish my course but seriously, if I could come up with anything as good as her pieces I would be very pleased. I have asked her permission to put some of her drawings on my blog, but I am going to be a bit sneaky and put three up now and then if she says no (she is very nice so I am sure she won't) I will take them down. How is that? Okay and I guess I actually better put up something by me - so I will put my initial cyclamen persicum flower workpaper here also. Not that exciting but it's something...Okay must go and work on a story I'm writing for my pa.
2 comments:
I hope that your cyclamen persicum painting goes very, very well---completely unlike what happened to your painting in my crazy story!! Hahahahahahahahaha!! =)
Great paintings by your aunt---she is very talented. Two of my great aunts were painters. One of my Great Aunt Laura's paintings hangs in my bedroom. Actually Great Aunt Laura is still living---she's at least 90. I'm not sure if she still paints.
Thanks Mark! As usual things are manic but have managed to draw part of my composition if not the painting part. It doesn't surprise me that your Aunts were painters. By your storytelling, I would say you are probably a very creative family :)
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