This week in the world of botany…
Hello! So, so far I’ve managed to:
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Define botany and plant taxonomy
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Create a pinterest board (you can find it here)
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Google the word botany. Lots of stuff came up, like ted talks, so I watched some on plants and flowers here https://www.ted.com/topics/botany
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Think about poetry…
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Go through some collected images, set up some journal pages and play with some iphone picture apps (mostly because I was procrastinating the actual work of drawing and seeing)
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Finally start reading and sketching…
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Use reference drawings and photographs from books and the internet to draw, take notes and define some botanical terms.
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Draw some leaves and their “typology” (I really liked doing these)…
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And then I paused to ask a question I used to ask my students all the time, “How’s it going?”
Answer: I started out trying different journaling styles and realized quickly that simple sketches in pen or pencil work best. Drawing forces me to slow down because I have to in order to be more accurate. It’s one of the reasons I started this study, because I tend to avoid the work. It feels like how I avoid weight lifting, squats, planks, etc. in exercise (give me dance-off any day). But, oh what results you get when you put in the effort. So effort is what I’ll put into this.
Next steps:
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Continue drawing practice
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Begin to draw from life and observe if/how I transfer what I’m learning so far
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