Spring Garden week is a week long Challenge with prompts to make springy illustrations of various gardens.
Taking on a “day job” means less time for your art and challenges are a great way to stay in touch with your craft in between projects.
Flower Garden illustration
For those who may not have access to a piece of land but still enjoy plants. During my study I was living in the big bad city. So my flatmate and myself only had access to a narrow balcony. Needless to say, it was filled with flowers every spring.
Pour celles et ceux qui n’ont pas de jardin mais aiment les plantes. Durant mes études j’habitais la grande vilaine ville. Avec ma colocatrice nous n’avions qu’un étroit balcon. Bien entendu nous le couvrions de fleurs à chaque printemps.
Cottage Garden
A cute little stone house. A rocky wall slightly crumbling down. wisteria and grape vine crawling up, and a cozy patch of veggies.
Une mignonne maison de pierre. Un muret usé par le temps. Une glycine et des vignes qui grimpent où elles peuvent et un carré de légumes réconfortants.
Mushroom Garden
I wouldn’t recommend picking the mushrooms from a faery circle. You may make someone mad…
Je ne recommande pas de ramasser les champignons d’un cercle de Faes. Vous pourriez fâcher quelqu’un.e…
Haunted Garden
Look at them!? How could you steal their hard work!?
Regardez-moi ça! Comment pourriez-vous lui voler le fruit de son labeur!?
All these illustrations were sketched out with color pencils. One stay in sketch form with ink outline and quick water color highlights. The others were transferred on a water color paper, painted and touched up with color pencils.