A flower opens, Camino reflections
Dear Sarah - Day 96 of our daily drawing exchange
April 6, 2025
Hi Nikki,
A grey and rainy day here--perfect weather for cleaning my apartment while listening to an excellent podcast episode about medieval art and memes called Medieval Codicology. The podcast is called Ologies--I highly recommend it.
Drawing the opened magnolia blossom was much more difficult than the other two--so much shading (and erasing)--but I stuck with it and I'm pleased with the result. It's so nice to draw in the daytime--lately I've been drawing as the day is ending, when I'm tired and the light is fading. So much better with natural light, especially when working from a photo on my computer.
Hope your Sunday hasn't been too crazy. I'm going to go and try and insert all the Don and Rose emails into the manuscript now.
XO Sarah
Hi Sarah!
What a difference a week makes! Back in Calgary for the night, but a week after the raging blizzard, today reached a high of 20 under a blazingly sunny sky! Fabulous!
This reflecting pool at a rest area just before Sarria is one I never saw in person (there are many photos online). Given how much reflecting I’m doing when it comes to our Camino, I thought maybe I could use the image even though we started after this point.
I thought I’d try to lay down some watercolour and then use pen to loosely sketch the image, but I’m not at all happy with how this turned out. Which is fine. It was a fun experiment (and weirdly soothing to sketch in the stones) but not quite what I was hoping to wind up with.
Your triptych, though! Oh, you should be pleased! What a great idea to follow the flower as it opened. Will you keep going and watch it through its next stages as well?