VISIT TO MY GARDEN FROM WORKSHOP REGULARS

Tomorrow afternoon I am expecting 6 of the regular members of the monthly workshop to join me for the afternoon to sketch or paint in my garden. Its been a glorious day today and is promised for tomorrow as well - so lucky. .. so I thought Id have a little dabble in the garden on my own today and take advantage of this sunshine we have hardly seen this summer in England . Tutor must always practice what she expects her students to achieve!!!!

So I played with the large hydrangea bush thats been in bloom all summer and selected three blooms and sketched them in my beautiful hand made sketchbook in readiness for adding colour tomorrow 'cos I might be busy with my visitors and it could be a little demonstration of how not to be precious when adding colour!!

The second piece, which proved quite difficult for the angle I chose eventually had the sun blazing right into my eyes, was a graphite and sepia pen sketch of the figures in my water feature, which when turned on has water pouring over the top of the umbrella down over the figures. Afraid the little girls face turned out too grown up and the umbrella looks too small!!! Well, we have to show our mistakes as well as our successes dont we??

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