Cactus dahlia, big and blousy and very pink!
Watercolour on vellum.

Poppy ‘Danish flag’ watercolour on Arches paper
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Bluebells and dandelions both on vellum - from the exhibition in Poland at the Manga museum.
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Shell painted with charcoal paint (new to me) … good for practising light/tone in between other stuff

Is it spring yet…. waiting for spring bulbs
Sprouting bulbs on dyed vellum panel and Rasta tulip bud on paper
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Muscari latifolium and Fritillaria Pontica, bulbs will start sprouting soon…. both painted on vellum

Onopordum acanthium Scottish thistle Asteraceae family - the national flower of Scotland.

Self seeded in the gravel - another in the ‘prickly’ series.
Watercolour and pen and ink, drawn actual size.

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Acanthus sennii leaf - scale x 3. Watercolour on Arches HP
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Acanthus sennii, a rare perennial flowering late summer.
Dead leaf painted scale x 3, watercolour on paper - for the ‘prickly’ series.

One in a series of thorny/spikey plants

Sea Holly
ERYNGIUM maritimum a perennial thistle - apiaceae family.