Sketches

My preparatory sketches are usually bits of scrap paper or even post-its on which I jot down the bare bone idea of what I want to do. Not the best practice, as I end up doing most of the work directly on the paper and sometime I have to re-elaborate and correct details over and over, at the risk of ruining precious materials.Unfortunately, I find it hard to draw a full fledged piece and then transfer it on fancy paper. I mean, I am much more driven and focused when I know that I am working on the actual piece. I tend to be too generic otherwise...Yet sometimes I wish I would elaborate more in a preliminary drawings to translate the images I have in my mind more clearly: typically my final results don't look at all as I thought they would/should...
Anyways, here are some sketches for current projects...;)

 

And to say good night, here are a couple more pictures of my beloved magnolia.

BTW, in case you were wondering, the flowers don't really have a perfume that I can clearly perceive...

And we have flowers!

I went home yesterday evening and I found that actually during the day the flowers of the magnolia had open: yeah! I think the rain has damaged them to some extent, but they are pretty anyways. They are pearly white and very delicate.
I took pictures of the tree in the past week to document the blooming. Here they are:

Aptil 16

April 18

April 19

April 21

April 22 in the morning

April 22 in the evening