Drawing

I chose some flowers I picked up at the local market for my "drawing" exploration. It is autumn and I was drawn to everything in oranges, yellow, and red, so I chose mini mums and Gerbera daisies.  My focus was on the daisies for this exercise, but I used the mums to help me create colored backgrounds for the photos.

I took a few photos before I started to draw the daisies.  The photos were ok, nothing special.  Then I spent about 45 minutes drawing.  I only did one drawing.  The most obvious element to me about the daisies is their brilliant red fading into golden yellow.  As I looked I could see shadows on the petals, the beautiful shapes of the petals, the roundness overall of the flower.  I even found the leaves with their curves to be interesting.

When I went back to taking pictures, I used natural sunlight, to emphasize the brilliant colors of the flowers.  I tried for a lot of macros, since this was my drawing view.

The drawing was a great way to really focus on the detail and figure out how to enhance what I was seeing.