I am fortunate to live close the Chicago Botanic Garden in the northern suburbs of Chicago. Among the courses in botanic art offered there I took courses on botanical drawing, graphite powder painting and pastel by a wonderful teacher: Marlene Hill Donnelly. I also took Pen and Ink with another great teacher and artist: Derek Norman. This period deepened my appreciation for nature.
These are images from this period. The nest 5 images are rendered with graphite on white paper. The three leaves were presented at the Botanic Art Student Show on October 2011 as "The Soul of Leaves." The fourth image is an exercise in the management of light.
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A tomatillo on tracing paper. It offered the opportunity and the challenge to draw both in the front and the back of the paper. I also explored writing next to the images. This is an example of the riddle
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What is inside?
Tell me the secret!
Is it a cricket?
Perhaps a snail?
An armadillo?
Open the veil!...
Wow! A tomatillo.
As part of the course in pastel I painted these avocados. Although my exposure to this media was brief, it was enough to convince me of its enormous appeal. This image and the next were presented at the 10th Annual Juried Art Show of the Northbrook Public Library in Northbrook, Illinois, on October 2012
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" Calabazas " ( Pumpkins ) Colored pencil on white paper.
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Graphite powder painting was a revelation but it took time, patience and persistence. For this painting I copied and enlarged the image of an ancient Egyptian statue from an issue on Cleopatra presented by the National Geographic Magazine.
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