Here's how it turned out...
Isley Park Woods is a Missouri Natural Area that boasts an astounding array of wildflowers every spring. I always wish I could paint them all as they bloom, but there's never quite enough time to keep up with them. Yesterday I ran away from home and celebrated Easter in my own way...
Bloodroot is a fascinating flower--the large leaves clasp the stem and protect the flower as it emerges. It's been used as a medicinal, a dye, and a love charm, according to folklore. You can read more about it HERE.
Hurray for you!! This is so lovely and fresh. Glad you had a happy day.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorite wildflowers, and you captured it perfectly. Your spring flowers are ahead of us (West Virginia). I can't wait to start sketching! This is the first nature journal I have ever done, and there are so many things I want to sketch and so little time! Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteJust so beautiful Kate! Love this page.
ReplyDeleteThanks all! And Joyce, you are going to have a WONDERFUL time. Nature study is one of the most satisfying uses for a journal.
ReplyDeleteOh, so lovely, and how fortunate you are to have wildflowers in bloom. None here yet, in cold Colorado, as the weather-casters are saying, "The state that Spring forgot." Brrr, it's been grey and cold and gale force winds--who can even get out to sketch? Glad you had an Easter getaway, and the color and spirit of Spring are so fully captured in your sketch!
ReplyDeleteI have just stumbled across this blog through Maree. It's certainly one I will be coming back to! Really lovely!
ReplyDeleteHi Sandra, glad you pitched up here!
ReplyDeleteReally inspirational pages Cathy - and I'm eying those watercolour pens, still haven't found any here in SA, visiting another shop with possibilities this weekend.
Lovely, Cathy! So full of color.
ReplyDeleteThank you! And Sandra, glad you found us...Maree's a frequent contributor. Maria, sorry it's still so COLD there! Really windy here too, but warm today anyway...
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