This week’s blog post is the nature sketches that I completed in England on my recent holiday.

I have not finished my holiday sketching books yet. I plan to add more notes about the plant to each page.

I will not be adding any more detail to the sketch. I like to consider these to be capturing the moment when I sketched them. A journal rather than an illustration

Some of these were completed on location as I sat in the fields in the lovely England countryside.

I had to look most of them up online to see what I was sketching.

Others I took cuttings of and placed in a glass of water. I later sketched them at my own leisure in my lovely cottage.

I was familiar with some of the plants as we have them in Australia. Others I had to check on, and some I had not heard of at all.

I learned to take scissors out with me on my walk, as many of the plants were very spiky.

I hope that you can see how much I enjoyed discovering the plants of the English countryside,