Wing-Petals...

As opposed to Petal Wings, 2 completely different things. Wing-Petals are butterfly wings with the pattern of petals instead of petals with the pattern of a butterfly wing. I think I just confused myself lol.
I used another tulip (I got loads of good pics when I went to the Eden Project a few months back) for the pattern of my wings

I used tracing paper which made the wings look a bit more like butterfly wings - more delicate - and I do quite like how it turned out. I'll have to do more like that.

#butterfly #drawing #tulip #eden project #tracing paper

Raining again

Well, at least I'm not missing any good sunbathing time and it means I get more drawing done, yey.
I've managed a Peacock feather and a bunch of leaves so far. The peacock feather's my favourite :)

 #leaves #peacock #feather #drawing #watercolour

Art-ception!

Well, I hope you're ready to be confused with what I made today. It's a flower, but the petals are leaf shaped, with the pattern from a butterfly, in the colours of a peacock feather!
Maybe didn't turn out quite as I'd have liked, I might try something less confusing next time, but I still like it. It looks almost magic, like some blue flames you can carry round in a jar like Hermione made.

(The lower colour's a lot greener in real life, just didn't show too well in the photograph)

#flower #leaf #petal #peacock #butterfly #magic #flame #Hermione #HarryPotter

Butterfly flower

I had a bit of a play today, I was a bit bored of flowers and leaves and butterflies so I decided to put them all together (well, apart from the leaves, sorry for leaving you out leaves) and make a flower with butterfly wings as petals! I used the same structure as the Tulip from the other day as I thought that turned out quite well and it was a lot easier than the Tulip, mainly cos I knew what I was doing this time lol.

The butterfly's wing I chose to use was the Orange Tip Butterfly (named for obvious reasons) because it had a nice pattern and the male and female wing patterns were different enough to look like they were supposed to be different but similar enough to look like they were from the same butterfly - the black and white inner petal-wings are female and the orange tipped outer petal-wings are male.

 #butterfly #petal #wing #orange tip #drawing

Flowers are hard to make

Well, the last few days have been a blur of Tulips and Roses. They make making Fuchsia's seem like a piece of cake!
What do you think?

 #drawing #rose #tulip #flower

All sorts of excitement...

Been doing some more drawing of leaves and fun things. It was actually quite exciting, I turned some leaves into a butterfly!

And I thought I'd make a Fuchsia flower cos I didn't know how hard it'd be (it was very)

 #leaves # butterfly #fuchsia #flower #drawing

Back to the drawing board...

Well, it's been a while. Sadly I've not been off gallivanting somewhere nice and sunny on holiday, I've not even been sat out in my nice and sunny garden. I've been stuck in drawing and dissertation, fun times. To be honest, I could go do it outside but I'd start sunbathing and get nothing done so I'll show you some bits I have got done...

My Minor Project is gonna be about colour - how it changes and how different people see it - so I decided to do the Pinterest classic and dye some flowers interesting colours. The first pic is when I've just put the flowers in the food dye and the second is when they've been in 3 days...

There was absolutely no change. After 3 days this was all that happened...

I'm not even counting this as a victory cos the one in green dye got pink veins too.

So, I decided to give up on that and draw some proper things - flowers/butterflies/feathers. Here are my faves:

 
 They're done with a load of different stuff, e.g. watercolours, pen, crayon, ink etc. The last butterfly was on tissue paper and looks ace, I need to do some more of those.

#drawing #flowers #butterfly #feather #peacock #pinterest #sun #holiday #minor project