This latest sketch study was inspired by photos I snapped at a local garden and plant sale.

The entire sketch:

I shared yesterday on my #sublimesunday post that I had made a trip over the weekend to a local garden and historic house for a plant sale. As many of you may know I am also an avid gardener and lover of all things plants, trees, and shrubs. I snapped some shots whilst in the wildflower garden of this amazing tree, an acer (or japanese maple).

As soon as I got home, I began sketching it out. Now, I also cut my finger on the knuckle of my left had a few days prior and had tried taking a day off sketching. That is a hard thing when one draws and sketches each day, but I soldiered onward. Case in point, sad bandaged finger.

What was interesting as I had only intended to sketch the tree and garden and then I saw one of my Singularity creatures there. I am beginning to image them everywhere I go now. I considered the day out in the garden in the form of half machine and of course, my ladies are never wanting for elaborate fashion. Here is the sketch right after I scanned it.

Then I set about adding more pencil in digital to begin to get the feel of lights and darks.

Then I start playing with digital watercolour.

I made a gif of some of the layers building up.

This will obviously ultimately end up as a digital oil. When I began sketching in the idea of the woman I often start with the historic fashion. I love historic dresses and consider who will be wearing this today? Her floating orb is just an idea at this point. She might have another more little robot device like I made in my dog layer of my Pandora painting I'm not sure yet. She hasn't an animal with here here either, but that shall come I'm sure.

I am loving this series as I really can carry it around with me through the day and wonder what would one of the ladies I am creating be up to? What would occupy her day? It's an amazing joy as an artist to build up worlds to live in in our day dreams and then to have the pleasure to put them down to paper, canvas, and screen to share with others.

This Summer in the Summer studio I believe some of these ladies will be making an appearance on large scale real life canvas, we shall see. I keep dreaming of it so come Summer we'll have to see if they want to be 'born' onto canvas and board.

I hope you all have a lovely day and make time to dream and imagine. Now, I'm off to my garden to plant and dream of what other things I could manage if I were part machine.

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