Palm House visit



When I visited the palm house I chose to produce primary drawings of certain aspects of the palm house and the flowers inside the palm house, using fine liner to create a simple line and a continuous line drawing. I also used pencil to draw more delicate pieces and charcoal for other pieces. I also took many photographs of the flowers and architecture of the palm house to create more detailed pieces at a later date.







Continuous Line Drawing

My favourite primary drawing is my fine liner continuous line drawing of the inside door of the palm house with the pink flowers cascading down. I enjoyed this technique as it is very easy to execute and the final product is simple yet effective. I believe that this technique adds a certain something to a piece and give the piece a flow and I would definitely use this again. to create this piece I drew the out line in black fine liner with out removing my pen off of the page, then to add an extra bit of colour to make the flowers noticeable and recognisable as flowers, I got a pink fine liner and added specs of colour and do the same with a green fine liner to differentiate the flowers from the leaves.



When walking round the Palm house I took many photographs of many different flowers and architecture of the building to help aid my other drawings once I left the palm house.





I was drawn to this flower because of the bright and bold colours. The contrasts between the boldness of the red petals against the dullness of the dark green leaves I found very eye-catching and I would like to try this type of flower using paint as I think the brightness of paint would be quite nice for this particular flower. 

 I found these flowers to be very delicate and simple looking so I thought these flowers would be nice doing with a water colour paints as the paints mirror the delicacy of petals. I also found these flowers to be aesthetically pleasing because of the pastel colours again contrasts with the dark green leaves. 

 

I really like these leaves because of the different colours included in just one leaf. I think the colours of the leaves are unique as its not something you see day to day. If I was to produce a piece of art work of these leaves I think I would try out oil pastels as the colours are bold and I am yet to use the oil pastel medium.










This flower is really eye-catching as its colours are bright and bold and it is quite peculiar as I have never seen a plant quite like this before. I would like to create an ink piece for this plant, I think using the technique of blowing out the ink so it spreads out into different directions to create the spikey texture of this flower.  

 

Here is one of my sketches from my sketchbook









Charcoal Piece

This was a timed piece drawn with charcoal. I was given 2 minutes to draw a number of different plants that I seen in front of me with charcoal. I do not like this piece as I don't think it looks as visually pleasing like my other drawings, I find this piece too simple and looks quite childish. I do not like the choice of media as I need more practice on using it as I think I can not use it to draw and shade. I will not like to use the media charcoal again if I can help it.