It has been a while since I blogged about my garden—which is a shame since it has been unusually beautiful this year. Alas, I am not an especially good photographer, but here are two little garden pictures so you can relive the end of May and the beginning of June with colored pencil drawings.
Night Ruler Iris (Wayne Ferrebee, 2016, colored pencil and ink on paper)
Here is “Night Ruler” the dark violet iris which I blogged about last year. It had about two good days before a rainstorm knocked down the 4 foot flower spikes—but they were two GOOD days. There is hardly a flower more beautiful than the near-black German iris.
Livin’ Easy Rose (Wayne Ferrebee, 2016, colored pencil and ink on paper)
Here is another beautiful flower, a floribunda rose named “Livin’ Easy” which is sort of a fluorescent coquelicot color. It is hard to get the vibrancy of the color of this beautiful little rose (and even more difficult to capture the heavenly smell). Maybe you will have to imagine the joy of rose season here in late spring/ early summer.
ferrebeekeeper 
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June 17, 2016 at 12:15 PM
Cathy
Your iris is very ‘Vincent’! Lovely …
June 29, 2016 at 3:03 PM
Wayne
Thank you! I am always frustrated by my iris drawings because the flowers themselves are SO exceedingly beautiful. I guess even to capture a tiny essence of their actual beauty still results in a powerful image
June 30, 2016 at 4:05 AM
Cathy
You’ve done just that, in my opinion. Do you know David Hockney’s irises, done with coloured pencil? I adore them.