tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67618577196841556692024-03-05T04:27:07.299+00:00Nature Trails 2014 - A Natural Sketchbook ExchangeNature Trail 2014-2015: a Natural Sketchbook ExchangeClairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662262765034384467noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-70767029106700533462015-04-28T14:32:00.000+01:002015-04-28T14:32:50.639+01:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last blog ! I've finished my tour and I thank the Golden Ladies for having been with me during these last 15 months. I'll take advantage of the sketchbook of G. L. Debbie for drawing a true beauty of the natur : the cat !</span></b></div>
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Giovanni Cerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831858475705475599noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-36318982206344167492015-04-28T13:53:00.002+01:002015-04-28T13:53:28.116+01:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where Campomigliaio is ? It is in Tuscany and it is a small village near Florence</span> :</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Every season and month I can find interesting specimen :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just in February I found near the wood this nice tree, starting its budding :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">... and at the end of the month the first blossom in the cherry plum tree (Prunus cerasifera) near the parking of the village :</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The tree of lemons entered <span style="color: black;">Europe</span> near southern Italy no later than the first century AD, during the time of Ancient Rome. However, they were not widely cultivated. They were later introduced to Persia and then to Iraq and Egypt around 700 AD. The lemon was first recorded in literature in a 10th-century Arabic treatise on farming, and was also used as an ornamental plant in early Islamic gardens.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lemonade_1-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon#cite_note-Lemonade-1"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lemon_2-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon#cite_note-lemon-2"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> It was distributed widely throughout the Arab world and the Mediterranean region between 1000 and 1150.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The first substantial cultivation of lemons in Europe began in Genoa in the middle of the 15th century.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lemon_2-2"><span> </span></sup>The lemon was later introduced to the Americas in 1493 when Christopher Columbus brought lemon seeds to Hispaniola
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lemon seeds. It was mainly used as an ornamental plant and for
medicine.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lemon_2-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon#cite_note-lemon-2"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> In the 19th century, lemons were increasingly planted in Florida and California. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(from Wikipeda)</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lemon juice and rind are used to make marmalade and lemon liqueur. Lemon slices and lemon rind are used as a garnish for food and drinks. Lemon zest, the grated outer rind of the fruit, is used to add flavor to baked goods, puddings, rice, and other dishes.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(from Wikipeda)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Tarentola mauritanica</b> is a species of gecko (Gekkonidae) native to the Western Mediterranean
region of Europe and North Africa and widely introduced to America and
Asia. It is commonly observed on walls in urban environments, mainly in
warm coastal areas, though it can spread inland - especially in Spain. A
robust species, up to 150 millimetres long, its tubercules are enlarged and give the species a spiny armoured appearance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Geckoweb_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarentola_mauritanica#cite_note-Geckoweb-1"></a></sup></span></span></div>
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head. Back, legs and tail with prominent conic tubercles. Its
regenerated tail is smoother and doesn't have tubercles. Obtuse mouth,
big eyes with no eyelids and vertical pupil. Fingers with big lateral
growths and adherent division less laminae in the bottom face. Only the
third and fourth fingers end in union. Brownish grey or brown coloration
with darker or lighter spots. These colours change in intensity
according to the light. When they are active by day their colour is
darker than during the night. It can be found on many construction
sites, ruins, rock fields, tree trunks, etc. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(by Wikipedia)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> In Apulia we have this saurus as a common friendly companion, present in almost all the houses and expecially in every old walls. It is from the family "Phyllodactilae" and its species is "Tarentola mauritanica". I've drawn it in the past for a friend of mine, who, as many people, is terrified of them ! Expecially in the evenings they wait on the walls, motionless, for their food that is insects and mosquitos. With a quick movement, you can see easily, they jump on the pray that is attracted from the light and catch it in their big mouths !</span><br />
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<br />Giovanni Cerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831858475705475599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-69608701079310876262015-03-19T18:39:00.000+00:002015-03-19T19:10:40.457+00:00<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Great September ! I passed the entire month in my house in Apulia. Alone ! Not exactly alone, but with Micia, who behaved almost good, because she had the occasion to stay outside the entire day, looking at birds and trying to catch lizards. I had the opportunity to look better at the Mediterranean flora that in September shows its beauty and its wealth. </span></span></div>
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Giovanni Cerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831858475705475599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-27075648912278946612014-12-06T16:01:00.001+00:002014-12-06T16:01:36.950+00:00Feeling Festive with Veggiebaubles<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ooh, I haven't posted here for a little while, but I can't resist a celebration. For the December and January sketchbooks it's all about celebration. Christmas and New Year is always a good time to let the creative hair down and really go to town on a composition. </div>
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For December I actually started with the wrong sketchbook, and before I realised, I had finished it with a Christmas design of vegetables parading themselves as Christmas baubles. All they need is the tree. Well, I must do something equally stylish for New Year and hope that the two recipients don't mind that I completed their books the wrong way round. Oops.</div>
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For Christmas we get a red onion with a raffia tie hanging from the top of the page. Seriously OTT I know, but I just loved this idea and really wanted to go for it.<br />
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Followed by a lovely bright red tomato. Rudolph would be green with envy.<br />
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As always, I love playing with typography, and a festive greeting was just the ticket. A little Christmas card to be enjoyed at Easter time when we finish the exchange.<br />
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Jarnie Godwin http://www.blogger.com/profile/02232816902329798635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-46059442712478782042014-11-19T17:47:00.001+00:002014-11-20T15:26:40.147+00:00Three for the price of one... and it's all ORANGE! Having not had a sketch book to work on all summer, I was surprised to realise that I quite missed it. There was something, after the intitial horror in January when this project began, rather nice knowing that a book was in the corner waiting for my attention. But my summer was busy and I was glad of the break... Until the day the post man delivered me three books at once.<br />
At first I thought, 'Why oh why did it not occur to me to keep working in anticipation of the next book arriving...?' (for having THREE books was really daunting) <br />
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But then I remembered the answer. The reason is because it feels different, for me, to do the work at the time I receive the book. It's what makes it not a scrap book. It's NOW. It's live.<br />
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For me, a sketch book is not the place for a miniature version of a larger, wonderful artwork. For me, it is a SAFE place, a place for fiddling and making a mess (not on purpose, but it's got to be ok to make a mess by mistake). I said that right from the beginning of course.. Looking through the (amazingly beautiful) books is a mixed emotional experience. No one is making a mess. I am sorry that the theme is nature, now. It would be exciting for botanical artists to NOT be allowed to include nature.. There's another idea..!<br />
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Then, I got the flu. Flu plus beautiful botanic sketchbooks is not a good combination. But I did some loose drawings of one of my most favourite things, gourds, and liked the immediacy of the sketch. The first drawing was done roughly, with long unbending lines building up colour lightly. On the second page I drew the sun-like pattern on the bottom of the gourds. I love the bottom of gourds, they look so vibrant, like they're having FUN. they look like Spinning Tops or bursts of fireworks. I was happy until my son saw them, and he scoffed.. oh no...<br />
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So I turned the page and painted the gourds. I LOVE gourds. Then remembered how awful the paper is in these books. It is unresponsive and allows for no playing with colour. It's not until you work on the wrong surface that you appreciate just how wonerful the right surface actually is. ALWAYS blame your tools. Wrong brush? No use. Wrong paint? No point in starting. Wrong paper? Forget it...<br />
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It was a struggle, though I stuck with it for several hours. Then I put the book away, and resolved to do something else to stick over the gourds.<br />
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And I moved on to the next sketch book... I decided to paint the same subjects that my students were working on, and the following week it was slices of organge. I don't particularly like the colour orange, but I really liked painting these. The colour felt jolly and enthusiastic - and I have been attracted to many more orange things. Perhaps it's the season. And the flu was improving...<br />
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Then, the next book. By now I have decided to go with the flow more and so stuck with using the same subject as my students. They were most surprised to walk in this morning and find a croissant at each place, along with a spoon so they could give themselves a dollop of jam, then paint it...!<br />
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Here's mine. (I know, it's still a bit orangey isn't it?!) Flu is gone, normal service resumes (whatever that may be...)<br />
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There is something I need to say to all my fellow setchbookers on this project. Having decided earlier that the gourds were so awful that I'd cover them up, I have decided that that would not be true. My sketch books are lived-in affairs, full of notions, ideas and visual evidence of conversations. I cannot change that. They aren't meant to be perfect. Perfect = pressure. The very last thing I'm prepared to put into my book is pressure.<br />
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Your books are so beautiful that I feel as though I am defacing them with my splurges. But they are, still, MY splurges. If you don't want me to ruin your books, please just say and I will pull out. In the meantime, I urge you all to be free and take a risk by trying something different. And there is nowhere safer to do that than in a sketchbook. Have fun...and carry on!Julie Douglashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750152940761828189noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-91383283236620615632014-11-16T13:35:00.000+00:002014-11-16T13:35:14.234+00:00Summer's End<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b style="background-color: white;">As the end of summer became near, the familiar trumpet vine appeared at the tops of the trees in our local woods. Every year I enjoy this splash of color. A very loud reminder that it won't be long before the summer will be over. And although I'm not a huge fan of orange flowers, I do enjoy these trailing trumpets and their orangey, reddish color. Even more, I enjoyed painting them. This particular orange was a challenge for me. As the petals at the bottom of the trumpet have a pinkish tint to them. I could not seem to capture that color until someone from our online botanical group suggested a wash of Quin. Magenta over the orange. And it worked perfectly I thought.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b style="background-color: white;">When I saw the first sign of this vine, I immediately decided that I would paint this one for Jarnie. Because the vines were in the woods tangled in the trees, it was somewhat difficult to get to. My husband cheerfully volunteered to gather some for me. I'm a bit of slow painter, so several trips were required.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><i><b style="background-color: white;">Now that summer is gone, the treasures of autumn are everywhere. I just can't seem to keep up with all the subjects that inspire me. I actually felt sad when my husband raked up leaves the over the weekend, because they were so beautiful and colorful and I was sure there was a leaf in that pile that I meant to bring in to paint.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE MOST USEFUL TREE IN NATURE !!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">because you can get and eat the fruits two times every year, you can dry its fruits, you can make jam with them, you can enjoy its shadow, you can draw it and you can wear its leaves as lingerie how is the mode this year :</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">this year I drew figs ... so many ... for the sketchbook of Golden Lady Doreen </span><span style="font-size: large;">too</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ... this is history ! No wars anymore now, only peace and love ... but figs are the best !</span></span></div>
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Giovanni Cerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831858475705475599noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-45448450495564549242014-09-17T03:58:00.001+01:002014-09-17T04:07:08.387+01:00<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Aislinn Adams</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coral fossil from the Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland.</td></tr>
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I knew I wanted to paint some “rocks” for Giovanni’s
sketchbook before it arrived. I was inspired by his beautiful paintings of
semi-precious stones and fossils. I brought back a coral fossil from my Irish
visit last summer when I spent a week in the Burren area - a must every time I
get back to Ireland. (Confession: I still feel a bit guilty about taking it.)
Later back in Oregon a friend gave me some coral and, even though it probably
has no connection to the kind of coral found in Burren fossils, I included it.
It’s always a fun challenge to paint white on white and I like the way the
bleached white of the coral compliments the blue-grey of the fossil.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of Mullaghmore with turloughs in the middle ground.</td></tr>
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I had been in the Mullaghmore area of the Burren National
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fruticosa</i>; my plant for the Irish Botanical Alphabet Exhibition, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aibítir</i>. I found the shrub along the
shore of a large turlough on the southern side of the dramatic limestone “coil”
of Mullaghmore. I had intended to include this landscape scene in the background of
my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aibítir</i> painting but had chickened
out in the end due to a combination of time pressure and loosing my nerve-
something I have regretted ever since. You live and learn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I felt braver about including it in
Giovanni’s sketchbook which I'm sure is due in no small part to the encouraging support I have experienced
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fossil, coral and Mullaghmore in background.</td></tr>
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Aislinn Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02239669506413731773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-24623980821313862572014-09-01T17:22:00.001+01:002014-09-01T21:17:00.440+01:00September- It feels like being back to school... (Ida Mitrani)Time flies and I realised that I haven't posted anything on the Blog since May. It feels like I have multiple drawers in my brain that just keep opening and closing!<br />
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So since May I have been working on Giovanni's and Sigrid's sketchbooks. I'm really enjoying being able to explore with various mediums and techniques. The Sketchbook project has definitely given me more confidence when creating while having fun. There are times when things have gone terribly wrong and thanks to 'glue', I have been able to cover my mistakes.<br />
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Everyone in the group has been so supportive and even though we don't get to see each other it feels like we know each other through our creations.<br />
I hope we will get together one day and celebrate all the beautiful things we've created!<br />
Maybe rent a house in Tuscany over the summer...<br />
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To get back to the drawings: The Chaffinch was done in gouache and the currants and leaf in watercolour. I have to admit, I much more enjoy working with gouache. Going from dark to light. It also allows you to make mistakes as opposed to watercolour which is unforgiven. <br />
I'm always so amazed when I see the work of the other members of the group when using watercolour and how beautiful it looks.<br />
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The drawings for Giovanni's sketchbook were inspired by some Turkish floral designs and the golden Ottoman writing actually means 'Nature'. </div>
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Coming from a multicultural background and born in Istanbul, I've been incorporating those designs in my own Fine Art work. You will see below, in the portrait with my mum, various colours used and symbolising her cultural diversity (Jewish, Russian Christian orthodox, Turkish, French..)</div>
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Ida Mitranihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07613060583499719560noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-43962052645330422502014-08-25T18:15:00.000+01:002014-08-25T18:15:08.143+01:00Catching up!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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First of all is<b> <span style="color: #741b47;">Aislinn’s sketchbook</span></b> which I painted in May. </div>
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The time flies past so quickly and summer is passing into autumn already. It is my favourite time of the year though with plenty of things to draw and paint. I have 2 books now to catch up on here, Ida's and Julie's. They are both filling up with beautiful studies, each page different and unique; they are all going to be treasured.</div>
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For Ida's book I did a few Tregaron bog sketches as I went there rather a lot in early summer. I also painted a dandelion clock in white gouache on black paper.</div>
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Then for Julie's book I painted cow parsley in white gouache again on black paper. I also added a few items that I'd found on walks and in gardens over July and August. </div>
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662262765034384467noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-35958730632625436542014-08-15T01:29:00.000+01:002014-08-15T01:29:13.205+01:00Summer's Distractions, Escapes Through the Sketchbook Exchange, and a Little Surprise RevealedThe summer is nearly over and I've had three sketchbooks in the works for quite awhile. Finally they will be in the mail tomorrow to Aislinn with my sincere apologies for the holdup. I am grateful for your patience.<br />
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The past year has been a bit of a rollercoaster of stressful events. Some very serious issues with my husband's health, a very demanding day job, etc. have had me looking everywhere possible for desperately needed distractions. And I found them. Spending time quality time with my husband, the joys of my garden, and some happy family events have kept me feeling grateful for the good things in life.<br />
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But the escape for me has been being a part of this Sketchbook Exchange. With many doctors, hospitals and mounds of medical paperwork, and my full time job, I've had very little time to focus on my art. I must add that the medical forms were the worst, really. I have severe "form phobia" and panic and procrastinate everytime there is a form to fill out. Being a part of this exchange and being committed to deadlines (that have long passed) has forced me to "escape" and paint. I've been using this painting time to do the best work possible as it's the only painting time I really have. And I've been seeing improvement in my work. So I am grateful for that. It's allowed me to continue to hold on to my dream that sometimes seems so far away amidst life's ups and downs.<br />
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I so much enjoy planning for the next sketchbook. I sit in my garden in early mornings and take in with complete joy, <span id="goog_1460424621"></span><span id="goog_1460424622"></span>every flower, plant, butterfly and all of nature's gifts and think of what I will paint and for who.<br />
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At the beginning of this exchange, I asked Shevaun if I could add a little something with each of my sketchbooks. Before I began my journey into botanical art, I spent alot of time sewing. I have a great love of beautiful fabrics and have built up quite a collection over the years. I thought I would like to sew a sketchbook case as my gift to each member. I've had the best time selecting fabrics for each sketchbooker - trying to choose which fabric would be the most fitting. So I hope you will enjoy my little gift when you all get your book at the end.</div>
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So for now, I am up to date and already beginning a painting for when the next book arrives. Hopefully, I will be able to stay caught up and have my much needed escape spending time painting for all of my lovely friends.</div>
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Well, the heat was certainly on with the next sketchbook. There were some truly gorgeous pages and I had a theme running around in my head that wouldn't go away. After Summertime there came A Midsummer Night's Dream, and I was quite literally, away with the fairies. Shakespeare's play gave me plenty of inspiration, and along with a quote and some honeysuckle sprigs, the pages started to come together. </div>
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After the quotation, title and other calligraphy was in place and the sketches of the flower, buds and berries, it was time to decide on presentation. I love to use a mix of elements in sketchbooks, with bits stuck in, pen and pencil here and there, some unfinished bits and of course, painted things.</div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I know where the wild thyme blows,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">where the oxlip and the nodding violet grows,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">With sweet musk roses and with eglantine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">There sleeps sweet Titania sometime of the night,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">William Shakespeare</span> </div>
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There is a link here. Eglantine is an old word for honeysuckle, (also used for briar rose which is confusing). </div>
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Well, it ought to be. But alas this month life hit me with something of an enormous great thud. Without going into tedious detail, it was all rather awful for a little while. But, luckily the big light at the end of the tunnel looms ever larger, (and Marks and Spencer cakes help an awful lot too). </div>
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So, onto this month's missive and the sketchbook of choice this time around belongs to Frances. Now, I don't know Frances that well but I know she is rather partial to a Celtic knot design or too. Having seen a couple of lovely designs in her sketchbook, I decided I couldn't quite match the intricate Celtic knottery and decided to go with a pageful of flowers instead. Also, with all the rather hellish nonsense going on, I knew I wouldn't be able to spend as much time as I would have liked on this one. <br />
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So, not wanting to disappoint, I had a good trawl through the archives and came upon a page of mixed summer flowers that I had completed a little while ago. I loved working on this page and knew with all the colours and shapes Frances might quite like these in her book. Rather than just a simple cut and paste job, I decided to work them up a bit with the addition of some dry brush work, to bring out the details a bit more. This also gave me the chance to see how the addition of Ox-gall liquid to the water would affect the paint. It worked a treat, and really helped with the flow of the paint, particularly when painting the 'Summertime' lettering. Highly recommended and great thanks to renowned artist Fiona Strickland for the tip.</div>
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As always, I added some of my typography flourishes, (well, I can't help myself on that) just to give it all that final personal touch. Flourishy and fluttery, I hope you like it Frances. <br />
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Here's a quick edit. Recently I wrote a piece about our exchange for the<a href="http://www.thesfp.org/"> Society of Floral Painters</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cherries are cultivated plants, but I discovered that in Mugello, part of Tuscan region, they grow in wild, big trees as an element of the local flora, expecially in the hight hills with a cool climate. At the end of June there are no cherries anymore, because of the birds, that have all the fruits eaten.</span></div>
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Giovanni Cerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831858475705475599noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-7681384869817676162014-06-08T23:46:00.000+01:002014-06-08T23:46:52.004+01:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Moving on...</span></b><br />
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These are my last few weeks in London; after a life's worth of traffic pollution and the screaming sounds of sirens in the streets at all hours I'm giving my lungs, and ears, a rest and moving to Trowbridge in Wiltshire.<br />
The park that has been a delight to me since living nearby all my life will be somewhere I only visit occasionally when Dyson and I come to London to visit our respective friends. Instead I will be living four minutes walk from the Kennet and Avon canal so looking forward to towpath walks and new bounty to discover and draw in the hedges and edges.<br />
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For what may be the last entry in the sketchbook from here I chose to put in something from my garden ... a fern crosier. I love watching the magic unfurling, tightly packed leaves filling out and surprising me with their fullness. The first attempt was in colour pencil (Polychromos) and I only managed about four layers before the paper wouldn't take any more...and neither could I !! it was frustrating.<br />
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On the next spread I took the book into the park and tried my best with the parakeets(something else I'm going to miss in Wiltshire). I did some rough sketches and tried painting on site but have decided that 'in the field' isn't for me and Dyson, maybe just me, certainly not Dyson! Used the colour pencils over the layer of watercolour for a little detail, jotted down some notes of the parakeets nesting, and did a graphite drawing on the opposite page from one of my own photo's. Came across a lovely poem by John Holloway and added that. Was fairly happy by the time I finished, which was a lovely turnaround from a frustrating start. <div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04035491043683526088noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-77566783371268681182014-06-01T15:22:00.000+01:002014-06-01T16:27:15.968+01:00Ida Mitrani: May 2014-The Mandarin duck and the Amaryllis An illustration inspired by an everlasting love between a Mandarin duck and an Amaryllis...<br />
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I've always had an interest in hybridization and the desire for humans to take control over Nature and create stronger species (selective breeding or artificial selection)<br />
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I wanted to create a drawing based on what could be the story of a forbidden and everlasting love. A fairy tale version of two absolutely different species,which merged together and unite to become one.<br />
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Using a drawing I made of an Amaryllis Regina at the beginning of the year, I combined it with the feathers of both male and female Mandarin ducks.<br />
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<em>'In traditional Chinese culture, Mandarin ducks are believed to be lifelong couples, unlike other species of ducks. Hence they are regarded as a symbol of conjugal affection and fidelity, and are frequently featured in Chinese art.' Wikipedia</em><br />
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I also decided to include the ducks beaks merging them with the buds of the flower.<br />
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<em></em><br />Ida Mitranihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07613060583499719560noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6761857719684155669.post-19033130960736841622014-05-30T21:09:00.000+01:002014-05-30T22:58:52.857+01:00Before, during and after the blockThere has been a hold up in the stream of sketchbooks. It was all my fault. At this point I have here 4 sketchbooks. But, no worries, they are all finished now and will be posted a.s.a.p.. The reason why I was so slow is because I was *hit* by a painter's block. It was not only the sketchbooks that suffered but the rest of my projects too. To start with I got <span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://diannesutherland.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">Dianne</a></span>'s sketchbook. A bit late but that was fine. I got started on it and the painting went really well and relaxed. <br />
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The subjects were mostly special Fritillarias. I knew Dianne really loves Fritillaria so the period I got her sketchbook was perfectly timed. I had to paint some Fritillaria for an other project. The other plant I painted was a twig of a Spiketail shrub I have in my garden. <span class="st">Stachyurus praecox is the Latin name. </span><br />
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<span class="st">So when that was done the next one had already arrived. It was <a href="http://followthatsketchbook.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">Lorraine</a>'s. At the same time I had bought a Helleborus ericsmithii. Really nice and perfect for the sketchbook. I thought it would be wiser to finish it and then post the two books together since the costs are pretty high. So I started with the first flowers and all went well. But after a few days (I did about one flower a day) I got sick. Spring started and so did the flu season. When I got better I started a new flower and it went terrible. I really couldn't paint what I wanted and I felt so miserable. Not only because it didn't go well but mostly because it felt like messing up a nice page in someone else's sketchbook. Next day I tried again and again I failed to paint something good. Like my paints and brushes had totally different ideas for this sketchbook. I guess that I also wasn't recovered totally from that flu and I felt so, so bad. So I put it aside and in the next weeks I had a big mental struggle to start painting again. I tried a couple of times on scrap pieces and in my own sketchbooks but it felt so wrong and unpleasant. <br /><br />Finally one day I felt a bit better and made the decision to stop for now with the watercolours and do only graphite sketches. I first did a test on separate piece of Bristol board and it went well. So I took the next sketchbook that had arrived (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/terri.dauncey" target="_blank">Terri</a>'s). I still couldn't look again at Lorraine's screwed up pages. I picked several flowers from my garden and started to draw. </span><br />
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<span class="st">Wow... it really went well!!! And finally after so many weeks I felt better about the project. It's one thing to suffer on your own from such a bad period but if it effects a project with 15 people it really is a high mountain to climb. It's all mental, I know, but once you get in that deep well it is a big struggle to get out of again. Anyway, Terri's got really pretty and I managed to paint in some bugs too to add some colour.</span><br />
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<span class="st">Dianne had asked me if she should keep <a href="http://jarnieg.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">Jarnie</a>'s sketchbook a little while longer but since it now felt better I thought I should hurry up now and get that one done as well. So, here's Jarnie's:</span><br />
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<span class="st">The Horntail was a nice surprise in the laundry room. My son Bertus picked a Cornflower to draw, so that's in it too. I just get so happy from the festive cornflower shapes.</span><br />
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<span class="st">So, that was that and almost ready to post FOUR sketchbook... Can you believe it???? FOUR!... Oh dear, dear... All that was left was the pages in Lorraine's book.... grrrrrrrrr.... but, I was determined to finish it well and not just send it off like it was. So today I picked a leaf of the Helleborus and made a graphite sketch of it. </span><br />
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<span class="st">There, done! Hope all four ladies will like my entries. In the end I enjoyed all four of them... apart from that huge hiccup (forgive me for that) ;)</span><br />
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