Hydrangea macrophylla letum (32cm x 22cm) - Prismacolor pencils on black Stonehenge support
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There is beauty in nature and all natural things succumb to death as the season changes to Autumn. I wanted to capture this hydrangea’s “dying breaths” as its remaining hours of photosynthesis gradually faded on this December day in 2013. Sunlight gave this plant hope, a final blossoming under subdued hues. Until the sun faded and the mystique of Winter called it on the cold breeze, downward, wilting and decaying into its resting place. - See more at: http://suburbanartjam.com/wp/death-of-a-hydrangea/
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Julie Ann Maguire
I have been drawing since my late teens and never had the opportunity or income to follow a traditional academic art route, so attending a local art college was never an option. Instead I became a “long-term” student of London Art College, a vocational route which began for me in 2006. Mostly…
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