Sketching Wildflowers!

Sketching Wildflowers! - student project

Here are my wildflower sketches from the class. I added a few concept scribbles to them to help you learn more about the sketching techniques we learned in the class. Let me know if I can help with anything else. :-)

 

Basic sketching techniques - flax + cosmos (drawing radial flowers):

Sketching Wildflowers! - image 1 - student project

 

Foreshortening + bilateral symmetrical flowers:

Sketching Wildflowers! - image 2 - student project

 

Examples for mixing bright colors and natural looking greens and neutrals:

Sketching Wildflowers! - image 3 - student project

 

Drawing leaves:

Sketching Wildflowers! - image 4 - student project

 

Adding shadows to a delicate wood anemone:

Sketching Wildflowers! - image 5 - student project

 

Loose but precise - wild oregano:

Sketching Wildflowers! - image 6 - student project

 

Field trip sketches!

Sketching Wildflowers! - image 7 - student project

 

And all the sketches together:

Sketching Wildflowers! - image 8 - student project

Julia Bausenhardt

Nature Sketching & Illustration

Teacher