Acorn
The wonder of small objects on the arm of a weathered Muskoka chair at an Ontario summer cottage by a lake.
Slowing time with deep observation of the plants around us
The longer we look at a leaf a flower, a plant, the more colours and details emerge. What was simple, mono-chromatic and symmetrical is revealed as complex, unique, many coloured, perhaps weathered or damaged by insect activity. In the process, we leave our stresses behind and live completely in the present with our subject.
Botanicals
Tea Rose
Capturing mainly white flowers is something I find challenging. I loved this luminous rose that I found in the old Courthouse Square in Toronto in July, 2025.
Single Peony
This single peony was sketched in St. James Park in June 2025. 6 X 4 inch sketchbook with coldpressed all cotton 300 gsm and DeSerres watercolour set with waterbrush. Microliner.
Rose
I really enjoyed taking the Domestika course Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach with Lapin. Drawing with a microliner with no preliminary pencil sketch was a bit scarey and frustrating at
