sketchbook page in a watercolor moleskine. sketching with friends in the Old Cactus Garden in Balboa Park, CA
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2011Jun 61
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2009Jan 11
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Meconopsis betonicifolia or Himalayan Blue Poppy – Watercolour pencils on a watercolour Molskine
Before folk think I’m a horticultural expert, I’m just repeating the latin name from the packet of seeds. I tried to sow hundreds of these seeds last year. This drawing is from a photograph of the only survivor of the apallingly wet summer we had. It has to be better this year?
