Day one hundred and twenty-eight: Several years ago I was quite enthusiastic about orchids. Friends started giving me orchids as gifts or to rescue, and now I have more than one reasonably needs. I used to spend quite a bit of time caring for them, but now I give them water and light and let them fend for themselves. Some do better than others. Once a year most of the phalaenopsis plants bloom around the same time, and right now I have eight or so in full flower. Today’s sketch is a study of one of them. I found the complexity of the flower more difficult to realistically reproduce than I expected, hence the incomplete composition. This particular plant is one I gave to my parents around a year ago, and they gave it back when they moved to Tonga, where I suspect they get to see all kinds of orchids.
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