I´ve had a drawing hiatus for a week, the flu has been taking the best of me and holding a pen felt like an unthinkable thing to do.
Today was the day when the drawing urge returned, finally, and I grabbed my technical pens and some coloured pencils and drew the tulips on the kitchen table. Tulips in February is a tradition in our household, as I guess it is in many others too. It feels like the perfect way to celebrate that light is returning more and more every day, and that spring doesn´t feel so far away even though we´re in the middle of one of the coldest months of the year. (Well, except for this particular year, we have the warmest winter in 250 years in Sweden right now. But usually February is frightfully cold.)
Note to self: get a better tulip vase! They look cramped in this one when they are new, they deserve better...
12,5 x 17,5 cm, Faber-Castell technical pens and coloured pencils on Moleskine sketchbook page.
22 comments:
Nina!! Welcome back!! Hope you feel much better soon! the tulips are lovely...just what a grey February day needs! I don't think I own a real vase...just a bunch of odd bottles and jars... deni........;)
Oh Nina, I'm so glad you feel better...your tulips make me feel the spring, just like my bluebird did yesterday! The power of art is amazing...
A really lovely drawing!
Nina, so glad you've got your mojo back. Lovin' those tulips you talented woman you!
I didn't know people got the flu in Sweden! :)
Oh well, I am glad you are feeling better.
I think there's wisdom in a partial coloring of a drawing. The ink, of course, stands on its own. But I have done that, too, and I think it taught me to pause and think before adding some detail or color or ... to a sketch or painting, and consider: what happens if I don't do that?
Nice work, have a good week!
We have had such a snowy wintel here in Maine—so cold and everyone has been sick, including me. I love your tulip drawing. Welcome back.
Beautiful ... I love your drawings.
Hope you're feeling much better! - And what gorgeous tulips too...
Beautiful sketch, glad you are feeling better! I don't know how you make dark black ink look so delicate ;) and that little touch of colour is lovely!
beautiful! The flu didn't take your drawing abilities away! :)
Beautiful!!! Glad you are feeling better.
Oh yeah. They are stunning Nina.
Lovely tulips Nina! We have some just like those on our kitchen table too. They are such happy flowers. Glad you are feeling better!
Wonderfully simple, yet elegant! I'm glad you are feeling better. Thanks for sharing.
I'm sorry you've been sick, Nina. This is lovely - especially the way you've just added a touch of color to the flowers.
Great.
oh! SO lovely - perfect balance between line and color. Love it! also reminds me we have some tulips on the desk downstairs...now why didn't I think of that earlier?
Nina,
The tulips are so lovely, a favorite flower I look so forward to in the springtime. You've captured me with your illustration.
Beautiful tulips!
Beautiful. And i love the tradition.
the drawing looks fantastic
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