Natural Collection | shells

shells 

I used photoshop to edit some of my previous designs into a pattern.

Natural Collection | Tropical fish

Tropical Fish 

While doing some research on tropical plants for my university project, I came across tropical fish and decided to give it a go and do some watercolour painting of some of the most interesting fish. The ocean is something I love to research so it fits nicely with my shell pieces. I mainly stuck to similar colour themed fish, looking at the yellow and blue pallet. 

Natural collection | Friends Spain trip

Spain

One of my house mates recently went on a trip to Spain. While she was out there she collected some interesting stuff on the beach. She brought back some really nice pieces of sea pottery and although there was not that many full shells she found some really pretty piece of shell. She even found a starfish which i thought was really interesting as I have never found any of these before. 

I add one of my shell drawings with it as I had one left of the blue mussels. I hope to do some work based on the pieces she brought back next. 

Natural collection | Eaton park Norwich

Eaton park Norwich 

On my walk to Eaton park i made a small collection of some things I found on the way. Autumn is a really nice time to fine bright leaves and seeds. I did a quick watercolour of one leaf i found. 

Natural collection | tropical flowers

Tropical flowers

In a recent university project I am looking at tropical flowers and leaves for a print pattern motif. I did some drawings of some of the tropical flowers both in fineliner and watercolour. It would be good to try some more exotic natural collection drawings, 

Natural collection | Hunstanton

Hunstanton

This quick watercolour is based on more of the blue muscle shells that I found at Hunstanton. The shells are broken and chipped. The shell collection has grown massively since last year. 

Natural collection | Ibiza

Ibiza


I found my very first sea urchins when i went on holiday this year, although I maybe have accidentally crushed one. I did some quick watercolour painting of the broken sections of sea urchin is still had left. The work isn't very detailed but I really like painting the pieces so they are arranged on the page. 

Im really inspired by a recent book i have brought as well. The cabinet of natural curiosities by Albertus Seba is a massive book filled with so many natural illustrations that he did in the 18th century. Its filled with animals and plants, as well as my favourite which is shells and coral. There is an amazing page filled with illustrations of all the different sea urchin shells.