Botanical illustration class

I've got pretty behind in uploading my botanical illustration on my blog. Here is my latest effort. Onion and garlic - watercolour and coloured pencil.

I started with the watercolour but wasn't really liking the result so continued with coloured pencil over the top. The garlic on the left is unfinished and shows the watercolour base.

Swimming Turtle finished

I finally finished it.

Huia Bird - finished

Illustration of the extinct New Zealand Huia bird. Created using colored pencils on cartridge paper. See the work in progress here.

Huia WIP

Here is a work in progress of the extinct New Zealand bird, the Huia. Created using colored pencils. See the finished work here.

Honourable mention in dA competition!

Today I received an honourable mention for my 'Mozambique Spitting Cobra' drawing on deviantArt for the 'African Predator contest'! I did this drawing years ago and it's actually one I want to do again (one day), to include more of the cobra and to add a background.