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Noticing Flowers

8/1/2019

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I've been drawing a lot more flowers and plants lately, mainly due to an increase in requests for botanical tattoo designs. Such as this in-progress drawing ...
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As an art teacher, I've always said that the best drawers are the best observers.  The more you notice, the better you'll draw.  Well, I am also finding the opposite to be true.  The more plant life that I draw, the more that I notice.  My eyes are being drawn to little buds and blossoms more than they have been before.

I went on a hike on Mt Hood with some friends a couple weeks ago and found myself almost as excited about the wildflowers we walked by as I was the view of the peak.
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The peak, my people, and some wild lupins.
And now I'm noticing flowers all the time.  I collect pictures of them on my walks and runs, and have an ongoing flower folder on my phone. 
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at a park near by house
I think it would be fun to do a wildflower-of-Mt-Hood series.  At some point... once I get past some commissioned projects and my never-ending state bird series . . . Oh yeah and my children's book and nautical coloring book . . . . I'm definitely not bored!
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NANCY
8/2/2019 05:30:51 pm

I can see how you're not bored. (Whoa. So many things to maybe do.)
BUT sometimes it's fun to be bored... so you can just focus on what YOU want to do - or NOT DO.

Well, sometimes I like 'do-nothing' time. (Yeah. You know I'm like that.)

Ah, but you are so good at EVERYTHING. And those flower-tattoo thingies are super-deluxe.

Ah, but your Sunday morning pancakes are REALLY SUPER-DELUXE.
(even though we eat them up-- and they're gone. ... but they make great memories.)

I'm getting carried away........

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Laura
8/3/2019 01:21:06 pm

Good point, about the being bored. And thanks! :)

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