... is that you have to work quickly - or it's too late! By the time I finished the picture below, one of the leaves on the top right had already drooped!
One day in summer, sketching outdoors, one of our group lamented: My lovely flower keeps dropping petals! I have to keep erasing part of my picture!
My neighbor Mary, who attends botanical art class with me, last week brought a new turnip to replace the one she was working on - which had shriveled up up and shrunk in size.
And, of course, my savoy cabbage has shriveled up too - and is turning brown! The camera comes in handy, as a reference tool. I could use my photo of the cabbage when it was fresh to make corrections to my picture. But there is more immediacy in sketching a real plant. (Time to see if there is anything left to eat!)
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