Monday, June 1, 2009

Rosa glauca

The last two days I was working on a drawing of one of my favourite roses. Rosa glauca. It's a botanical rose with small pink flowers. The leaves are spectacular: grey green with a bit of dark red in the veins and stems. In the autumn the rose has a lot of dark red hips. It's wonderful. I made a drawing of the hips two years ago. I will probably do another one this year or next year since I've sold the first.

Rosa glauca

The rose is flowering only for a very short period and I had to work fast for this drawing. This morning yesterday's flower had dropped it's petals. I'm happy with the flower and I think the pink resembles the true colour very well. Also the buds and the stem (or branch) are very good I think. The leaves however are a bit of a problem. I don't like doing leaves and the colour of these leaves is very difficult. I managed to draw two leaves and I hope the pink of the flower and the red of the branch will distract the attention from the leaves a bit.

Oh, and about the rose... it's called Rosa glauca, which means Red-leaved rose. The front of the leaf is grey- green but the backside of the leaf is a bit reddish. The veins are red too. It is a species of rose native to the mountains of central and southern Europe.

5 comments:

  1. also known as Rosa rubrifolia I believe :) great picture!

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  2. Just yesterday I was admiring my Rosa glauca. I planted it a few years ago and it is really coming along. You've really captured the colours of this rose, which I agree with you, it is a tricky thing because it is silver and grey-green and red all at the same time!! I recognized it right away. Well done!

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  3. Thanks Rachel! That must be a very old name (???) I never heared that name, but it sounds very similar :)

    Spinyurchin thank you! I'm so happy you recognized it. That means I did something right. It's so funny. I uploaded this scan on my imac and the colours looked great. Then this morning I saw it on my pc and it looked so very grey... still nice, but much more grey than the actual drawing (and the rose of course)

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  4. This is just stunning, Sigrid...what a beautiful sense of volume...

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  5. 美丽的玫瑰中微妙。

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