Petals and sepals, the flower’s outermost parts, are usually the most leaflike. They’re often broad and flat, and many sepals are green enough to photosynthesize, even containing stomata. As flowers evolved, petals became specialized to attract pollinators. Today, most petals have little to no chlorophyll and instead rely on many other pigments for their color.
Playing with a kids’ art supply: tempera paint sticks.
I’m really happy with the drinking glasses I made at Moonlight Glass last week. I made them deliberately wonky; I wanted an irregular outer surface so there were places to rest the fingers.
Happy birthday to my ride or die.
A group of local artists met today for a relaxed two hours, with everyone taking turns to draw and pose. These are some of the 5 minute poses I sketched. Is it still called life drawing if we’re clothed?
A foreshortened hour spent with Danny Gregory and the Draw With Me gang.
Somebody liked their birthday card!
I’ve had olive oil on my shopping list for over a week, but the good-priced stuff is at a store I don’t regularly frequent, and there hasn’t been a convenient occasion to go there. So I’ve been eyeing the diminishing volume every day as I cook, and repeating to myself “I have to buy olive oil.”
Then last night as I was falling asleep I suddenly remembered, apropos of nothing, that I had two bottles stashed in another cupboard. Score! I love it when my brain pulls a useful memory out of the subconscious filing cabinet and says “here you go!” Thank you, brain!
“Fuchsia” is a tricky word to spell. I got it wrong on this page.
