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Alina Lupu

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Apples, oil on wood panel. Listening to Ella Fitzgerald and practicing for tomorrow's live. Three pears, dip pen and sepia ink. Pear study in sanguine and ink. Working on a commission. Watercolour, gouache and ink on handmade toned paper. Time lapse of drawing the rose. Adding the bright yellow flower of Rudbeckia laciniata (coneflower) in my botanical journal. Drawing a rose in the old masters style, with modern materials, for my Patreon Masterclass. New live tutorial on drawing blackberries (link in bio) How "home" feels like. New video tutorials on drawing from life various species of hazel nuts with pencil, ink and watercolor (link in bio) Botanical Journal - Mount Retezat flora How I tone the watercolour papers with ink. New tutorial on Patreon. Sketching flowers 21. Phalaenopsis. Study of Physostegia flower in my botanical journal Hollyhock fruits and seeds, graphite drawing on my botanical journal. ET? 😊 Not really. Just a cross-section of holyhock's fruit (Alcea rosea). I love how drawing transforms every common thing into something profound and mysterious. The second Panopea shell sketch More shell sketches, this time with ink on handmade paper. “When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” I resumed running. Literally, not metaphorically. Fancy pansy Flower sketches 19. Passiflora capsularis. In today’s tutorial I will show you the geometry behind this apparently complex inflorescence and the steps of drawing a typical passion flower. June botanical journaling - dip pen and ink on toned paper. A small break from drawing flowers: sketches of berries from the garden. Daily Sketches 11 - Digitalis purpurea. Daily Sketches 10 - Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Fanfare'. June 7 - Bellis perennis. June 5 - Geranium phaeum June 4 - Ornithogalum umbellatum (star-of Bethlehem). In today’s tutorial we will discover the geometry behind the composition of a 6 star-shaped flower and I will show you how to apply minimal ink hatches to give it a three-dimensional look.

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