Rose
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Post Pruning
On one level, this is simply a painting of the consequences of a common horticultural procedure – a fresh bud squeezing out from a severely trimmed stump. At a more metaphorical level however, this image seems a bit too personal to spell out in more detail … As regards the artwork – the pen did…
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“Isometric” Rose
An isometric drawing is a type of 3D drawing that uses a 3D representation where the angles between the axes are always 120 degrees. My drawing app has an isometric setting which forces all the pen strokes to be either vertical or at 60 degrees to the vertical, in order to simplify the creation of…
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Rambling Rose
We bought this rose at a local garden fete, with a warning from the stall holder that this plant was “a bit of a thug”! I think it is a “Rambling Rector” – a variety more formally described as having “very vigorous growth” and as being “very thorny”. At the moment I drew this rose…


