Purple Water Iris

I have recently purchased "Botanical Painting with Coloured Pencils by Ann Swan" and it inspired me to do some more coloured pencil work. Ann taught me how to paint with coloured pencils. I am a Silver Signature member of the UKCPS.
We grow these irises in our pond, but unfortunately they don't last very long when picked.
I used Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils on white Fabriano Classico paper. 5"x9"

A Good Year for Grapes

We have a heavy crop of grapes called Brandt. The vines are suitable for containers and ripen into small, very sweet black grapes. All our fruit is doing well, but we have very few french beans and the tomatoes look rather poorly. Probably due to the dry spring.