Made in the shade
June 22, 2017
Two objects shaded in two different ways – tiny lines and teeny tiny ellipses.
Tag: Graphite
Getting to know graphite
June 19, 2017
All of my early art training was done in charcoal and we created all the tones using one stick. So, the world of graphite is new to me where I can create differences in tone with harder or softer pencils. This is me getting to know my graphite!
Bougainvillea Barbara Karst – the Leaf
June 17, 2017
This is a drawing of a Bougainvillea leaf – the shading is done with stippling or tiny dots created with the point of a pencil.
Water birch – the VEINS
June 7, 2017
My first posting of the water birch leaf included the secondary veins. Continuing work on this line drawing of the leaf by adding the tertiary veins. Such an amazing network!
Water birch tree leaf
June 5, 2017
Note to self – specimens shrink as they dry.
Using that sharpened pencil – leaf portrait
June 4, 2017
My first leaf portrait – part of new adventure in botanical illustration! Poor leaf dried and curled up in the heat.
A new adventure begins …
June 2, 2017
with learning to sharpen a pencil.
Lisa M. Payne Studio 