1. Purpose:

a. To get back into the habit of making & sharing drawings on a regular basis

b. To deepen my appreciation and understanding of nearby nature

2. Media:

Flexbook sketchbook

Blackwing pencil, black brush pen, extra fine Micron pen

3. Schedule:

1 plant/day every day for 30 days

4. Subject: Colorado native plants (grasses, flowers, cacti, no trees)

sources: www.conps.org

5. Sharing:

Photograph and crop using ScannerPro app.

Daily on Instagram account www.instagram.com/djsereia and FB, weekly on Patreon www.patreon.com/elisedietrich

Day 1: Blue Grama Grass

30 days of Colorado plants - image 1 - student project

Day 2: Purple Prairie Clover

30 days of Colorado plants - image 2 - student project

Day 3: Greenleaf Manzanita. Here I started doing a notes/sketchy page, then a more finished drawing too. It lets me get some ideas out and practice before I start drawing in ink.

30 days of Colorado plants - image 3 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 4 - student project

Day 4: Rocky Mountain Columbine

30 days of Colorado plants - image 5 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 6 - student project

Day 5: Rubber Rabbitbrush

30 days of Colorado plants - image 7 - student project

Day 6: Blue Eyed Grass

30 days of Colorado plants - image 9 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 10 - student project

Day 7: Curlycup Gumweed

30 days of Colorado plants - image 11 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 12 - student project

Day 8: Pasque Flower

30 days of Colorado plants - image 13 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 14 - student project

Day 9: Plains Pricklypear

30 days of Colorado plants - image 15 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 16 - student project

Day 10: Prairie Sage

30 days of Colorado plants - image 17 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 18 - student project

Day 11: Pinesap

30 days of Colorado plants - image 19 - student project

Day 12: Bigseed Alfalfa Dodder. I drew and posted this on Halloween, so it seemed appropriate to chose a parasitic "vampire" plant.

30 days of Colorado plants - image 21 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 22 - student project

Day 13: Showy Milkweed. Day of the Dead-- chose this one because monarch butterflies are said to represent returning souls.

30 days of Colorado plants - image 23 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 24 - student project

Day 14: Chocolate Flower

30 days of Colorado plants - image 25 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 26 - student project

Day 15: Banana Yucca

30 days of Colorado plants - image 27 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 28 - student project

Day 16: Scarlet Globemallow

30 days of Colorado plants - image 29 - student project

Day 17: Yellowspine Thistle

30 days of Colorado plants - image 30 - student project

Day 18: Buffalo Grass

30 days of Colorado plants - image 32 - student project

Day 19: Desert Paintbrush

30 days of Colorado plants - image 34 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 35 - student project

Day 20: Claret Cup Cactus

30 days of Colorado plants - image 36 - student project

Day 21: Western wallflower

30 days of Colorado plants - image 38 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 39 - student project

Day 22: Rocky Mountain bee plant

30 days of Colorado plants - image 40 - student project

Day 23: crested prickly poppy

30 days of Colorado plants - image 42 - student project

Day 24: Prairie smoke

30 days of Colorado plants - image 44 - student project

Day 25: small leaf pussytoes

30 days of Colorado plants - image 46 - student project

Day 26: Leafy cinquefoil

30 days of Colorado plants - image 48 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 49 - student project

Day 27: Blue Flag Wild Iris

30 days of Colorado plants - image 50 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 51 - student project

Day 28: Common Yarrow

30 days of Colorado plants - image 52 - student project

Day 29: Fringed Sagebrush

30 days of Colorado plants - image 54 - student project

Day 30!!!: Pincushion Cactus 30 days of Colorado plants - image 56 - student project

30 days of Colorado plants - image 57 - student project

Elise Dietrich

Cartoonist and illustrator

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