botanical art
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So the excitement is building! Tomorrow is the opening of the ASBA Botanical Art Exhibition at the Horticultural Society in New York. Im thrilled to have had my painting ” Crimson Collar”, an Oak Leaf Hydrangea in fall colors, selected along with 41 others from a field of 215 submissions from around the world. This
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Here’s the finished Cala Lily. I’m not loving the negative space. Thinking about peeling back the spathe and painting the amazing spadix or maybe some additional growth in atmospheric perspective. Just looked this up in my trusty Glimn-Lacy “Botany Illustrated”. This is actually not a Lily as the common name would suggest. It is in the Arum
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Well I met my deadline for the Horticultural Society of New York’s annual exibition by just choosing to finish. It seems I’ve been working on this all winter but now I really need to be looking at Spring things! I hope it will be accepted but since it is my first attempt I won’t be too
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Starting my largest botanical to date. Just could not resist these Oak Leaf Hydrangea. The challenge is that the leaves are already changing and will be dust in a few days. I have my drawing done to scale from the live specimen and my colors are matched but for the painting I will have to
Susan Sapanara 