Garnets

Red grossular garnet, Mexico (my collection)

  

Always fascinated from garnets because of their colour. The red of some variety (grossular, pyrope, spessartine) remembers of the vivid red of the grains of pomegranate. 

Red grossular garnet, China (my collection)

 

To me especially it remembers of the beautiful deep red "ruby" colour of the red Italian wine not so old.

Red Garnet, Brazil (my collection)

Red Garnet, Afghanistan (my collection)

As a precious stone, the red garnet is not of value, except for those pieces that show special clarity, colour and purity.

Red grossular garnet, China (my collection)

 

The garnet was used as a stone on rings, instead of the true and extremely expensive ruby, at the end of the 19th - start of the 20th century

Faceted red garnet (my collection)

 

Mineral and crystals of red grossular garnet

Watercolour on "sketchbook exchange"

 

Botanical garnets

Watercolour on "sketchbook exchange"

The beginning

No a botanical subject, no a tree, no a garland of twigs. For the title page I've choosen to draw in short the trips that the sketchbooks will do around the world. Fun ! It remembers to me the past time, when the bread was homemade : a small piece of dough left from the not baked bread , the yeast, was sent, doing a turn, to other houses for taking there new ferments and to keep it always alive.

(Watercolour and Copic pen)