I bought the new moleskin last year for something special. It was the biggest one so far and I was orginally excited to start it but then those big white pages just screamed for something special. So I never started it at all. This year as I get ready for the garden tour on April 10 &11 th I came up with the idea to do the whole moleskine in a 2010 Garden themed sketchbook. I am taking extra care with my sketches and enjoying the challenge of laying out these larger pages. But in all my efforts to be careful I miss spelled one of my titles , I left out a "u". Ahhh right there, big as life, painted in red is my glaring mistake. I always think, years from now someone will be looking through these thinking, poor, dumb artist couldn't spell! Anyway, this is my beautiful "ARBUTUS" or Strawberry tree. The bark is a beautiful rusty red with deep green leaves and pink berry like flowers, a wonderful bedding plant that can be trained into a small tree or hedged. I even dried and then glued leaves onto the page.
No they will think that the goddess of watercolors was human after all. Beautiful sketch and I bet not many people would notice the misspelling if you didn't point it out.
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous, misspelled name and all!!! I wonder if this is a relative of a madrona, which I hear is also called arbutus?
ReplyDeleteIs this a larger moleskin that has watercolor pages, if so I'd love link to see where to get one...
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Lovely sketch! Lots of depth!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful painting, and great job on those leaves! When I misspell (too often it seems), I always think it's because my right brain is still engaged in artful experiences, not words. :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Desiree! I think Elizabeth is exactly right about spelling and our right brain.
ReplyDeleteLovely! The shading on the leaves and berries is wonderful.
ReplyDeletethank you so much for the nice comments, I found it at a quaint art store in Italy while on vacation last May. I don't even know if you can order them online from www.Moleskine.com.I never see them on the website. It is big, double the size of the normal watercolor moleskine(8 x 11). It is really wonderful, this size is large enough for some nicer paintings. I sometimes get tired of the long horizontal format of the smaller moleskine.
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