Yesterday I spent the day by the Mississippi River where my husband is working for a couple of weeks. The Mississippi Palisades State park is a beautiful place. This is a spring that you pass just as you enter the park.
I hiked a couple of the trails and spent the day drawing while my husband was at work. The wildflowers were beautiful. Drifts of trillium and bluebells sweeping down the hillside. While I was drawing I was so still that 2 deer walked right up on me. I took some photos too and will add them to this post if they turned out well.
Yesterday I spent the day by the Mississippi River where my husband is working for a couple of weeks. The Mississippi Palisades State park is a beautiful place. This is a spring that you pass just as you enter the park.
I hiked a couple of the trails and spent the day drawing while my husband was at work. The wildflowers were beautiful. Drifts of trillium and bluebells sweeping down the hillside. While I was drawing I was so still that 2 deer walked right up on me. I took some photos too and will add them to this post if they turned out well.
Joyce, these are so beautiful! I have heard from others about how beautiful this place is. Thanks for such a beautiful reminder
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful drawings and I'm sure will always take you back instantly to the lovely day you spent with flowers and deer enjoying a very quiet moment in this very busy world.
ReplyDeleteWow, Excellent sketches!
ReplyDeleteThese are both lovely. I love the shading on the rocks...I am working on that. Was it pencil you used? What hardness?
ReplyDeleteGreat sketching. I like the colors on the scene at the top.
ReplyDeleteThanks! It is amazing how drawing something really does enable you to remember the experience so much better.
ReplyDeleteSioux, I used pen and ink to draw, cross hatching in some areas that would be very dark. Then when I got to the top of the hill where there was a breeze off the river, I sat down with watercolor pencils and painted it in. The colors on the rocks are mostly a brown (maybe an umber?) and shades of gray from the black colored pencil.
Great nature sketches, Joyce
ReplyDeleteJoyce, these sketches are really nice. I love the way you did the rock formation and the tap of water. Man-made versus Nature.
ReplyDeleteThat must have been a beautiful walk!
Your sketches are WONDERFUL! What a nice place for a "crawl".
ReplyDeletelove love love the palisades page. it's wonderful.
ReplyDeletelove the sketches...and great scans of them too...thanks so much for sharing
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely page of flowers. sound like you had a great day.
ReplyDeleteNicely observed flowers - I like the way you always comment on them as well/
ReplyDeleteThese are just lovely. It sounds like you had a wonderful day at the park.
ReplyDeletelovely drawings you got here... i'm another fan of illustrated journalling... hope you don't mind that i've put a link to your blog from mine... have a nice day!
ReplyDeleteYou put a lot of hard work into these and they are great.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful!! You have two wonderful drawings here-ready for framing!
ReplyDeleteJoyce, these are wonderful---you obviously had a lovely day, drawing all by yourself in a beautiful place.
ReplyDeleteHi Joyce. I just found your comments on my Flickr photos - of the "marmite painting". This blog has inspired me! I'm going to do a drawing a day, too! And here's today's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackpix/149334141/
ReplyDeleteI love how you've captured the rocks!!! Makes me yearn for the woods and real boulders. LOL
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THESE ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love these pages!!!!!
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