Geranium

Today I've been drawing cranesbills, or hardy geraniums. I have a variety of these perennial plants in shades of blue, pink and purple, the purple ones are a favourite of mine. The delicate flowers have tiny veins of colour running through them, these sit beautifully above the large green leaves.

Geranium is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as the cranesbills. They are found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. The long, palmately cleft leaves are broadly circular in form. The flowers have five petals and are coloured white, pink, purple or blue, often with distinctive veining.
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For this drawing I am using black drawing ink and applying it with a dip pen.

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Have a wonderful day!

Hello my friend ...
Beautiful ....

Hey @mars9, thank you!

My dad used to do a lot of pen and ink, this makes me nostalgic :) I love how you dressed it up, like garnish on a plate at a restaurant.
Those photos are beautiful too :)

Thank you @dreemit. I do like a nice bit of garnish, lol. I'm just in the process of serving up the next course...

Oh good, I love it when I get to a post when it's hot off the press, so I will check back soon!

You have my vote...sooo beautiful .. I love flowers and drawings of flowers.. the best to you. Nice to meet you. :) Resteemed and following :)

Ahh, lovely. Thank you!

you are very welcome my new friend

Loving your floral drawings... Could be a coloring book... :)

Now you are just putting the pressure on, lol!

You have such beautiful art! Thank you for sharing once more and adding some beauty in my day. <3

Happy to add beauty to your day :D

Gorgeous art @opheliafu, even more impressive you did it with a dip pen!

I enjoy the challenge!

gotta love the perennials! cheers

I'm a lazy gardener, I don't really do annuals unless they are self-seeders.

So beautiful. Will you be adding colour and posting the new pics?

I have started to add colour to this, but I think I may play with the composition and style more before posting that.

Nice to know the cat likes it!

It's really amazing @opheliafu,
You are so clever, the picture becomes more alive and looks like the original.

I'm glad you have been amazed!!

Your work never ceases to amaze me. I can hardly even draw a stick man.

I like stick men, you need to do some stick men drawings!

Yeah..right. I would get laughed off of Steemit for sure...LOL!

Nice paint! And you may draw a bee on it ：）

I hadn't thought about the wildlife, i must give more thought to that in my compositions!

Beautiful as always hun, love your work :)

Ahh thanks @karenb54

You are more then welcome :)

Thank you @paolobeneforti, I'll have a look.

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