Brand New!! My Cacti Together With Succulent Drawings - Inward Coloured Pencils

Coloured pencil drawings of Cacti together with succulents for Florum 2014
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

This is my contribution to Florum 2014 - an exhibition celebrating establish life which opens to the populace on Saturday.  My drawings inward coloured pencils are:

• top left: Triangulation  - this was exhibited at the Society of Botanical Artists inward 2011
• top right: Sansevaria Surprise - the mutual names for this establish include many variations on 'tongue' e.g. mother-in-law's tongue, devil's tongue, jinn's tongue, snake natural language plus bow string hemp together with serpent plant.  It seems to me they were coined yesteryear people who had never seen the flowers!
• Middle left: Grey, light-green together with pinkish inward Yuma - inspired yesteryear a java halt on my 2006 route trip (see below)
• Middle right: Echevaria Laui - looks pale grayness but genuinely displays incredibly subtle colours
• Bottom left: Aloe Polyphylla - it has an amazing spiral pattern
• Bottom right: Tesselation #2 (Agave Victoriae) - a reworking of 1 of my master copy drawings of this plant.
• Bottom middle: Aloe Karasbergensis - really stripy!

All works are for sale at the exhibition which is opened upwardly sixth - 13th September (10.00am - 5.00pm) at the Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve.  I'll endure stewarding on sun if anybody wants to come upwardly together with see together with encounter me! Below are links to my previous reviews of the Florum exhibition

• 2013: Florum tenth Anniversary Exhibition - review
• 2012: Review: Florum 2012
• 2011: Exhibition Review: Florum 2011 - inward Sevenoaks

Incidentally afterwards a walk to a greater extent than or less the reserve yesterday, I tin highly recommend it to anybody wanting to depict birdlife, wild animals together with wild flowers.  I shall endure returning to pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension there.

I've been drawing cacti together with succulents for some time - e'er since a 2,000 mile route trip inward 2006 from Santee inward Southern California to Albuquerque, New United Mexican U.S. of A. (https://maketopart.blogspot.com/search?q=

My preference is for a macro persuasion of the establish which focuses on its structure.  Interestingly, when I terminal exhibited my drawings (at some other biological reserve - the Mission Trails Regional Park, in San Diego, California) the comment that was almost oft made yesteryear visitors was that people had never genuinely looked at cacti together with succulents unopen upwardly earlier - but they would inward future!  That's plenty for me to continue drawing them every bit I do!

In price of working inward a serial or alongside a subject catch my website 12 skillful reasons to pigment inward a series

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