Painting Ginkgo Leaves And Making Patterns

🌿🌳💚 HELLO DARLINGS! I ALWAYS REMEMBER WHERE I’VE SEEN THIS KIND OF TREE WITH ITS SHAPE AND LEAVES THAT I ADORE.

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Ginkgo watercolour sketch

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I love ginkgo leaves, speciality at this time of year. The leaves turn from green to yellow and lovely pale oranges.

I picked a few fallen leaves one day last week and brought them home to draw. It was just a sketch drawn with a fine liner. I scanned them into the computer for later and then coloured them with watercolour.

Later in the week I signed up for a class by Bonnie Christine. She is teaching a free 5 day class on pattern making in illustrator. I know the basics of pattern making but every time I take one of these classes I pick up a few hints, tips and techniques that make this epic program easier to understand.

Since I’d drawn the line work for the ginkgo earlier I decided to use them to make the pattern and I…

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