As we come to the close of 2020, we have a final submission for our Natural Treasures Challenge of "Festive". Mary Atkins has contributed two coloured pencil paintings of an Amaryllis. Mary commented:
I have never had an Amaryllis before and thought it would be nice to try one for the Natural Treasure Challenge. I bought the first bulb in early November from my local garden centre. When nothing seemed to be happening I bought another at the grocery store. When the second one wasn't giving me much hope of having a picture drawn and coloured by Christmas I went and bought a third at another grocery store. This one is simply named 'Waxed Amaryllis'. When I went to the website attached to the label, the closest one resembling this one is called 'Red Lion'. This plant had a bit of a head start and has absolutely no maintenance like watering. I still had to persuade this plant to bloom by putting a light on it for many hours. So just in case it didn't give me a bloom, I drew two pictures. This was done with coloured pencil and watercolour pencil on Stonehenge Hotpress 140lb.
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