Ginkgo. Colored pencil on 11x14 Bristol Board
.PLANTAE
Nature provides the best source of patterns.
My favorite patterns of all - The Kingdom Plantae!
Next time,
Look very closely:
Leaves, flowers, fruits!
Tree, trunk, canopy, roots!
Monocot, dicot,
Short, stout, drooping,
Lobed, toothed, pointed, erect,
Striated, Ovoid, conical,
Shiny, dull, furrowed, broad,
Slender, scaly, elliptical, hairy,
Smooth, hairless, yellowish,
Slightly hairy, purplish,
Narrow, brittle,
Flattened, trembling, quaking,
I read a book about plants,
I am exhausted and breathless…
YEAH BABY!
Ah, the ginkgo, otherwise known as Ginkgo biloba, the only specie in its family worldwide. A deciduous tree with a pyramid crown becoming widespread and irregular with age; without flowers or fruits. See why I love it? It describes my body! The males of the specie have cones. 
I drew the ginkgo last night and this morning. This is my favorite time of the day - everyone is asleep and the light is concentrated only in certain areas. I have my coffee in a Sunflower Fiesta mug and I am surrounded by art supplies - heaven! Below is a view of my office. I am surrounded by my children's and best friend's artwork!
Wonderful for this theme Ces! I love how you used the colours to describe the Plantae! Beautiful and informative and lively post :) Nice to see you enjoying your art and posting again :)Awesome image!
ReplyDeleteThank you Val. You know me and plants. I think I used to be a gardener in my previous life, now they don't like me to take care of them, just draw them. :)
ReplyDeleteI adore Gingko! I use it in just about any piece of jewelry that will welcome its form and I have actually done some pieces in pure silver that I had a heck of a time parting with.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to plant one but they grow big that are best left for bigger spaces than what we have to offer. But B.Loved and I sure would love to have one in our garden. I love yours, but then again, I love everything you do.
LoVe the pencil drawing. LoVe LoVe the macro photos! Stunning. Everything you do is stunning. Especially your smile.
ReplyDeleteAah! My dear Allegra. It is wonderful to see you today! I can see the ginkgo as a specimen for jewelry, it is perfect! I can see them as earrings! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteACK! Deborah! Wake up and open your eyes! You are thinking of someone else! Thank you for the art compliments. I started drawing last night, not a lot though.
I've taken Ginkgo but didn't know much about it. Your drawing is beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteI'm playing sisterfriend. Been a little under the weather with a ear/sinus infection but I think I'm feeling better.
AAAAHHHHHHH!!! My favorite Saturday playmate!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to hear you are under the weather. October 1st is the start of the Flu season. I am writing rules for the flu season! Ha! I missed you! I hope you are drinking lots of fluids and getting enough rest. Did you see Deborah's leggy photograph as a teenager? It's on my blog's previous post!
Ces,
ReplyDeleteDon't see Deborah's legs. Where am i looking?
I bet they're nice and long because they almost hit my chest while I was standing beside her!
It's been rainy and gloomy since I got back hope I stored enough vitamin D to last me the winter!!
In the previous post. It is small but you can see she the fabulous legs! Heheheheh! We are talking about Deborah's legs. HAHAHAHAH!
ReplyDeleteOk.... i saw them and it's just as I said..... they strech out forever....lucky girl!! I want me some of those..... instead....I have the longest arms ever....lol
ReplyDeletePainted today a little bit. How about you?
I am imagining your long arms! :) Thay could come very handy.
ReplyDeleteI drew the ginkgo. I am trying to draw but I am really scheduled myself to work today.
I received a couple of ATCs from Caroline - beautiful! I need to make hers. The Bella and I agreed I could stop the contract of not drawing because I have not had any pain but I can't draw for long periods. I tire easily. I have a second aspen painting on the easel.
Do you want to exchange ATC with me? No. I'll just give you a drawing.
Glad you can draw a little! I've never done an ATC. My god they are small...lol! I get frustrated when the face is too small in a journal page because I can't make it expressive.
ReplyDeleteYou can't give me a drawing.... you have to start selling on Etsy and I will buy! You're like me..... give everything away. Are Gemini's givers? I feel like a giver.
YES! Geminis are givers. They are very generous with people they love. Do you have Etsy?
ReplyDeleteOMG.... my typos? When I reread anything I'm mortified. Most people must think that I failed out of English 101. Maybe I'll say that it's because I'm French.....lol
ReplyDeleteNo Etsy yet...... but I'm going to do it and see what happens. I'm doing prints.... I think!
ReplyDeleteSo.... giver I am! "Hello" my name is Manon..... and I like to give, give, give!
Ah if you do it, I will do it then. I have terrible typos. Ask Bella. I am amazed she understands me. Well, I have a very good excuse. I only lerned to speak English when I came to the US when I was 24. - HAHAHAHAHAHA!
ReplyDeleteI am serious. Do you want anything of mine? Just tell me.
ReplyDeleteGirlfriend.... you have the best excuse!! I started in French schools but then we moved to B.C. and i attended English schools! By the time we moved back to Quebec ... I had to continue my education in English..... so really... no excuses pour moi!!
ReplyDeleteLet's do it! Let's jump in the Etsy pool head first! If I'm going to drown.... I'll drown with you!
Of course... you'll swim like an olympic swimmer and i'll hit the bottom...lol!
ReplyDeleteCes.... i can't type fast enough! You are speedy gonzales...lol!
ReplyDeleteLet's do it. We might as well have fun!
ReplyDeleteI am a poor smimmer but I can dive, man! I learned to dive before I learned to swim probably because of the drop offs in the Philippines. Very scary. People drown easily.
I actually have an Etsy account. I opened it two years ago and I never used it.
I can't type either! I type with two fingers! That's why I make a lot of typos because my fingers can't catch up with my brain. My fingers are like a roadrunner on the keyboard. HAHAHAHAHAH!
ReplyDeleteOk.... we'll do it. Yes.... we'll have fun and be totally clueless together!
ReplyDeleteDrowning.... yup... unfortunately my brother drowned when he was three and I was a year old. Long story but I had a fear of the water until I was ten. My mother put me in swimming lessons and i was terrified but I did it. To this day I get really frightened when someone tugs at me in a pool!
What a downer that was....lol! OK .... we're moving on!
You are fast!! I saw a couple of roadrunners in AZ! They're pretty cool!
ReplyDeleteNOOOOOO! I am so sorry. See, life eeks into blogging. Sometimes people think that bloggers have no life, hah! Then here we are sharing tragic experiences. You are my friend Manon.
ReplyDeleteI thought roadrunners rode in bicycles and have backpacks delivering from door to door?
ReplyDeleteYou are my friend Ces! Yes.... we put ourselves out there don't we?.... LOL
ReplyDeleteHa, ha! I had no idea what I was looking at when I first saw one. My only reference was the roadrunner on bugs bunny...lol! Beep, beep!
ReplyDeleteHopefully tastefully. Hehehe! I have met the most wonderful people through the blogs, the people on my links, you are one of them. What is your favorite part of blogging?
ReplyDeleteTHAT... is my favorite part! I'm not involved in the local art league because.... well... it's not my thing around here. Don't think they'd get what I was doing...lol! So.... this has been such a supportive venue for me.
ReplyDeleteDo you like my afro?
ReplyDeletehahahhahahhahah! You made my day girlfriend!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I think blogging has enabled me to be more interested in my art. I still think of it as a hobby except I am a bit bssessive about a lot of things!
ReplyDeleteBrrr...I am cold.
I love the lighthearted exchanges, the sense of humor and intellectual stimulation. Most of the bloggers I have kept and maintained contact with are the ones that provide me the greates intellectual stimulation. I am glad to discover new ones of course.
hope you're not counting me as intellectual stimulation....lol!
ReplyDeleteGet the Viking to warm you up!
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ReplyDeleteMy comment keep showing up twice!!!
ReplyDeleteYes I am! Absolutely! Not only that, I love your honesty and intensity. YOWZA! You inspire me.
ReplyDeleteMy multiple Gemini personality are coming out! HAHAHAHA!
HAHAHHAHAH!
The Viking is stinky - he just came back from fishing!!!
ReplyDeleteYou inspire me too Ces!! Your work is stunning.... that's why Etsy is for you!!
ReplyDeleteLet's see. You know when money is involved, people act differently. They can always comment and praise but money is something else! Some people are such sychophants, obsequious...hahahaha!
ReplyDeleteBTW...... Your FPOT is huge! You're a braniac sister!
ReplyDeleteWe'll do it..... because .... I'm not sure .... but it's time to get out there!
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA! That's Bella's influence. She really is the giant FPOT - Whoa!!! Amazing. She used a word I did not know the other day and it turned out to be a common word. The Viking twisted his nose at me when I told him.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the word?
ReplyDeleteHahahahah! I am embarrassed! It was "hale" as in healthy, hardy. Ha! I had to look it up. HAHAHAHA! She thought I doubted her. HAHAHAHAH!
ReplyDeleteBtw.... I meant brainiac....lol!
ReplyDeleteOK.... so the Viking can turn his nose at me! Didn't know it either.....it's because I'm French...lol!
ReplyDeleteI like baniac better - I need fiber! Hahahahah!
ReplyDeleteAh, no he won't. He likes my friends.
Hey! Would you rather I say:
"Hey Manon, you are looking mighty hale and hardy" or
"Yowza, sister! you're HOT!"
HAHAHAHAHA!
Gorgeous gingkos. I remember watching a gingko tree blowing in the wind one day in college. All the bright golden leaves fanning in one direction at the same time, shimmering. It took my breath away.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, the girls stink.
Love the photos from your garden! Such a fascinating collage. And what is in your sunflower mug? It looks like milk.
Hahahaha, sorry to interrupt your conversation with Manon. Carry on, my dears. :)
Ok... I get the meaning now!! You learn something new every day!
ReplyDeleteSisterfriend.... I think i may have carpel tunnel...lol! Think I might need a nap..... rest my sinuses!!!
ReplyDeleteHey! Yes you Bella Sinclair! Come back here. Come and join us! We are entertaining ourselves! HAHAHAHAH!
ReplyDeleteOkay Manon, take it easy darlin'! Rest. Drink plenty of fluids!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ces!! It was a blast as always!!! Thank you for entertaining me and all your kind words!!! I will go have some wine...lol.....oh... you meant water....lol....i'll do that!
ReplyDeleteMake like a gingko tree and ..... leave.
ReplyDeleteNow by 'frenchman' you mean frenchwoman and you really mean me, well yes, hell will break out.
ReplyDeleteLove Renee xoxo
Gingko, love em.
ReplyDeleteHowever, in Philadelphia they do have fruit (they planted the wrong sex of the tree) and it's "God Awful" to smell or try to get off your shoes if you have walked thru the fallen fruit, ask me how I know.
That said, I still love em and their leaves are incredible to observe.
wow! wow! wow!
ReplyDeletehi Ces! thanks for gettin' lost at my humble place! your art works are awe-inspiring! now, i don't get to appreciate plants only in photography but through your great works too. :)
ReplyDeleteI've been struggling with Sunday photo shoot but your plant collage is lovely. Never thought about fiddling with some macro shots! Glad you're back and in the saddle girl!
ReplyDeleteCes, the nocturnal fecund Artist.
ReplyDeleteNaturally it would be nature that draws you back to your Bristol Board*!*
I LOVE ginkgo trees, they make me happy.
ReplyDeleteAnd your drawing is just incredible you are so totally and utterly talented.
My GOSH! I thought that was a photograph of some gingko leaves. It's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! You're right--ginkos do have such lovely patterns. (But the female trees--pee-uw!!)
ReplyDeletelove the colors, ces!
ReplyDeleteHi Ces - I'm so busy at the moment I can't keep up with all your posts - but just have to leave a quick comment here as it's so beautiful! I love your Gingko leaves and that photo mosaic is stunning - thanks for a great post!!
ReplyDeleteOh. Perfection.
ReplyDeleteAnd I had the most wonderful time eavesdropping on the exchange between you and your sisterfriend Manon. Thanks, girls, that was fun and funny all at once. xx
ReplyDeleteSuch a very, very happy post, Ces. I'm so happy to hear you "smiling" over there in your loved sanctuary. Awesome post..didn't know all of that about the Gingko..you are enlightening me! And fun to know you're using your Fiestaware! : )
ReplyDeleteLovely illustration!!