Carnivorous Plants of Australia (drawing)

Traditional mixed media drawing of the carnivorous plant Cephalotus follicularis (Albany pitcher plant). Cephalotus is one of my favorite carnivorous plants and it was amazing to see it in habitat (near Walpole, Western Australia) for the first time. We had GPS coordinates and suddenly we were standing at a cliff (plants were growing at the bottom, 10 meters below...), but luckily we found an easier way to reach the plants (took us 2 hours) so that I could take some pictures. This has always been one of my favorite photos and I've always been afraid of drawing it (blurred + messy details)... but as I always say: "I like challenges!".

For this drawing I used the Hahnemühle watercolour paper for the first time. Why I didn't use my usual mixed media paper: 1. I wanted to blend as many marker colours as possible (for example for the blurred parts) and 2. it was easier to draw grainy parts, because the paper isn't that smooth (but I admit that I used the back of the paper! The front was way too grainy and had much more structure). It was fun and the marker colours were easy to blend! Maybe next time I'll use it for watercolours (or another mixed media drawing with markers).

Reference picture of Cephalotus follicularis plants (Western Australia, September 2011) by me.

Hahnemühle Cornwall Watercolour paper bright white matt 24x32cm (cut to DIN A4) 450g/m² (size of the drawing = 23,3cm x 16cm); Faber-Castell Polychromos artists' colour pencils, Copic Ciao and Sketch marker, uni-ball Signo pigment ink um-153 white; time: 20 hours

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Here are some other traditional drawings:


Download: WIP photo and high resolution (4x) scan.

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