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Entries Tagged as 'Botanical'
On Mother’s Day
May 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Botanical, Ink, Sketchbook, Watercolor
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Lincoln Park Conservatory
January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Botanical, Chicago, Pencil
Since it’s cold out, we spent the morning inside the wonderful Lincoln Park Conservatory. Paul and a friend took photographs while I sketched. The somewhat washed out drawing at the top is the entrance to the Palm House, the one in the middle is from a couple of different buildings, and the one on the bottom is from the Fern House.
Shoin House
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Architecture, Botanical, Chicago, Ink
Today, we took a long bike ride up through the Forest Preserve and the Skokie Lagoons to the Chicago Botanic Garden. We had lunch there and did a little walking around. The best part was the Japanese Island. You cross a longish wooden foot bridge to get to it, and then you can wander around on an elaborate series of paths that wind through traditional Japanese landscape features and garden elements. This drawing is of a Shoin House — a structure from the Edo Period that was designed to merge the outdoors with the indoors through the incorporation of sliding panels in the walls. I also really liked the Zigzag Bridge. Apparently, evil spirits move only in straight lines, so they can’t follow you if you cross a zigzag bridge.
Tags:Architecture·Botanical·Chicago·Ink
Cypripedium calceolus L.
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Botanical, Ink
Stella Ross-Craig’s Drawings of British Plants is the authoritative work on British flora. She did thousands of drawings, many of which are still housed at Kew Gardens where she worked. She lived to the ripe old age of 99, dying less than one month shy of her 100th birthday. Maybe that means drawing is good for you!
This Lady’s Slipper is a copy of one of the studies she did for Drawings of British Plants.
