This is a collection of the pencils sketches I drew around May 23-24, as I prepared to paint these flowers in my painting "Midsummer's Flowers." The painting is for an upcoming show organized around the theme of Shakespeare's play "Midsummer Night's Dream." My painting is based on a short poem from the play that mentions these six flowers.* In my painting, the text of the poem will run around the edges of the canvas, like a picture frame, and within the frame I will paint each of the six flowers in the style of botanical illustration. So while I was laying out the composition on the canvas and establishing the lettering, I was also researching images of these plants, and then sketching them. Big breakthrough as I figured out how to create a collage of these sketches!!!
*The poem: "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows / Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With musk-roses and with eglantine."
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