Last month I visited the University Botanical Garden and found lots of shells(!, in the gravel), herbs and dried pods of flowers. I collected a few and have enough work to last me some time, if I want to paint all of them. I am thinking of drawing just one enlarged flower of petal instead of a branch of bunch of flowers. Anyway, from the botanical garden is the leek (kraallook) and some unknown pods. I started to use earth pigment for these and I like it. The leek got a touch of gold brown, burned sienna and mauve. For the aster novi-belgii(herfstaster); lots of tiny flowers and petals. Instead of the usual olive green, I used chroom dark green and some permanent green. Naples yellow, mangan violet and purple magenta for the petals.
painting the life 
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