new lockets and fig buttercups
April 18, 2009 | Filed Under botany, paintings, sketch, sketchbook, wanderings | by Sarah Blank | 13 CommentsTwo bits of good news. I am not mia or forgetting about this blog! I have some major time-consuming work obligations right now (which take up part of my weekend as well) but come the end of May it will end and I will be less busy! Also, I look forward to a relaxing, painting-filled and totally free summer in the coming months. I have been using this time to go back to the well, so to speak, and sketch, plan, journal. I hope to revamp this blog with more of my process, my inspirations, sketches. Would you like to see more of my sketchbooks? I’d like to know! The second bit of news is of a shop update, with a couple of lockets that feature my sketchings and bits from my oil paintings.
A preview of a vintage locket that will be in my shop within the next few days…
Close up, the blue bird is taken from Pulling on our Ribbons and Hair. I think I’m going to tie a piece of vintage fabric to the top of this one.
And the gal from the locket graces the inside of my giant sketching book/ journal.
I ventured to a swampy glen down the street to take some pics of my lockets. There are the most amazing flowers that carpet the entire woods floor, creating an almost day-glow effect. They are called Fig Buttercups, or Pilewort and they grow in moist areas (and often mix with the skunk cabbage, which is abundant here as well.)
A close-up of these sweet little perennial blooms.
I am so grateful for each and every one of your comments here! It keeps me going, inspires me to post more often… Thank you!!
Eeep ! My favourite girl of yours … in a *silver* locket …
I’m in love already !
Nice to read you, and I always love to have a glimpse at your sketchbooks !
Everything is always so pretty around here …
And I’m glad to see that I found a fellow flower-geek in you ♥
Good luck with the hard work but don’t forget to take care,
x x x
___mathyld___
Thanks so much Mathyld!!
I love to see your sketchbooks, they are always so inspirering
Oh how I wish the woods here could look like that now…. here we still have lots of snow, but it will melt away in the next 4-5 weeks (it always does this time of year)
I can’t imagine still having snow…
I hope yours melts soon!
Hi !
The flower are called Svalört in Sweden.
I have them in my forestgarden,every year
And I love to see your sketchbooks—-
*Ingela*
I would love too see a photo of them in Sweden! The flowers are so beautiful.
Thank you and take care!
Oh wow! that forest is magical! What a beautiful and inspiring place to see your new pieces! I would love to see your sketches. I am bad, I never sketch. I need to learn patience and do it…I have a terrible attention span I guess.
Your beautiful spring reminds me of Anne of Green Gables. I’m reading it now, and its full of such lovely nature imagery.
Good luck with all your work endeavors and cant wait to see what you make this summer!~
heather
Anne of Green Gables is one I would like to read!
Thanks Heather!
I’d love to see more of your sketchbooks, they are so beautiful.
wow I can’t believe all those buttercups! how magical.
Thanks so much Julianna!
I would love to see more of your sketchbooks! Everything you’ve shown so far has been beautiful.
Good luck with your work, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of your blog this summer
Thanks so much for the kind words Angelique! I am longing for the summer months right about now…
How pretty!
We call the flowers celandine’s here.
Its lovely to see your sketchbook work.