summertime flowers

7 July 2015

Wildflowers in Europe in summertime!

Its hard to take a walk without spending most of the time crawling on your knees and taking photos on macro setting. I find myself sketching one tiny flower while everyone else is in awe of the majestic mountains and hills around. It can be difficult to concentrate on the bigger picture with all that detail in front of you. Life's like that too I suppose :-)

Pen and watercolour sketch of red poppies, France

Sketch in pen and ink in Moleskine pocket watercolor book of thistles, France

Monochrome pen and watercolour sketch of old barn, France

Pen and watercolour sketch of beautiful French potager

Dr Seuss like flowers, alpine meadows France

urban sketching france in my sketchbook out and about

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