#lilac buds

[fromtheheather]

Lilac Buds—Mrs. S (1906) - Edward Steichen

[thesingingbullfrog]

Happy first day of spring. Nature isn't stressed about toilet paper, masks, and hand sanitizer. Nature is still there, growing, changing, living.

[heaveninawildflower]

‘Lilac Buds: Mrs S’ by Edward Steichen ( 1879–1973 ).

Photogravure (printed 1906). United States.

Image and text courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Art.

[artinmylife]

Sketch-a-Day Prompt 21: "Budding"

I definitely struggled with the shading on this and getting the lilac buds to look sufficiently rounded. In the end, I am relatively pleased with how it all turned out, though it doesn't totally match the reference

(other than the black border, which I don't like at all. I was trying to make it clearer on the scanned version where the edges of the paper are, but it looks pretty janky lol)

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Online reference photo by Arthur Haines [link]

[redvinylkitty]

Lilac progress. 💜

--Please do not delete my caption--

[lauramariescorner]

Some signs of Spring today! 😍

[stumblngrumbl]

not spring yet, please, it's still winter

[geezerwench]

The lilacs are starting to bloom.