Friday, July 6, 2018

Paw Paw & Hackberry

This drawing of the pawpaw leaves was an attempt to help me identify the tree in the undergrowth along the Wakarusa River in the wetlands. What I have not done yet is done such a drawing with a Zebra Swallowtail butterfly or 2 sitting on a leaf. The Pawpaw is their meal of choice I understand. A few days before starting this, one of those "Zebras" had landed right at my feet for a picture.  
There are a couple small Hackberry trees growing in the background and also a bit of poison ivy going up one of them.

Here is the same drawing after getting a good start on the ink. I had gone over most of the pencil with a fine line pen, and was starting to rough in some of the background.

Here is the drawing as it was when I left the woods for home. I was tired of the mosquitos, as I had forgotten my DEET, but was unwilling to quite on the pencil until there was enough to get a finished ink drawing out of it. 

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