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"

Mistletoe

Mistletoe flowers and berries

We came upon these beautiful clumps of Mistletoe growing on a Hawthorn tree in Bushy Park yesterday. It reminded me of the colour pencil painting I did in 2007. It was selected to be on the front cover of the christmas edition of Talking Point, the UKCPS magazine.

Mistletoe in colour pencil