Etlingera elatior

Growing in the back garden once upon a time. It has many, many names - Torch Ginger, Ginger Flower, Red Ginger Lily, Torch Lily, Wild Ginger, Combrang, Philippine Wax Flower, Xiang Bao Jiaing, Indonesian Tall Ginger, Boca de Dragón, Rose de Porcelaine, Porcelain Rose.

Here we call it Bunga Kantan. 

Illustration Friday - Lush

 

From sketch to ...

Lush.

Acrylic, poster colour and pen on paper.

Inspired by Laurent Moreau.

Note: She's biting on a flower because I smudged her mouth :)

The Village

I bought some stamp pads yesterday and had to test them out so I made more stamps and put them to work. And they worked like a charm. The colours are limited but I was so happy I found them. The stamp pads I see featured in a lot of the blogs I read are beyond my budget but these were really affordable. Excellent!

As usual, I had no idea what I wanted to do or where I was going with all my random testing. This village scene grew from trying to cover the mess I was making :)

Bold!

... or trying to be :)

Poster colour, acrylic and Chinese brush pen on paper.

Illustration Friday: Jungle

I really liked this week's topic because I got to explore an old obsession of mine - plants. I came across a quote on Pinterest - "Draw what you see not what you know" and I realize the problem I get stuck all the time is because I don't exercise my observation skills. So, for this piece I did a sketch first and looked up some pictures and the plants outside my window as reference and for inspiration. You can see it's quite different from my usual style. It took time to get out of my comfort zone. Didn't think I could do it but ... :)  Learnt a lot!

Note: The last time I did anything for Illustration Friday was November last year!

A touch of whimsy

Used my new white acrylic ink with some blue and yellow poster colour on grey paper.

Plants & Flowers

Another one of the sketches I did some time back - done!

New Obsession

Plants.

Plants & Flowers

When Sweetie #1 first got her camera she mostly took pictures of plants and flowers. I think these were taken around my mother's garden. Pretty!

Brown on Brown

Sweetie #1 pulled out my old sketchbook and made me use it for some inspiration. She must've caught me staring into space too long with a brush in my hand, sighing and probably muttering to myself. Haha. She kicks ass. Mine :)