Time for some flowers. I started drawing a lot of flowers in Spring, it felt like the right thing to do. The ones above were from a bunch of flowers I got my wife for Mother’s Day (from the local florist Strelitzia), which thankfully the cats did not eat or knock over. Drawing botanicals can be a good stress-reliever, I greatly recommend it, alternatively it can be quite stressful in which case don’t do it. The world always seems a bit nicer when there are flowers about. It’s a shame they die, but that’s life, it’s natures way. Below are some more flowers, which I drew from photos I took around Davis, and were used as borders for a special invitation flyer I made for the retirement of one of our distinguished faculty this year. Once I started drawing flowers, I could not really stop. The orange ones are California’s Golden Poppies, and the other ones are other types. I’m not exactly King of the Florists, don’t expect me to name them. Still I do like drawing these flowers in this particular style, and you never really know how it will come out, it just happens a bit organically. It is nature’s way.