#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #26 Lichen, Lichen, Not a Lichen

Lichen, Lichen, Not a Lichen

The little red raspberries on this twig are probably a Nectria fungus commonly known as Beech Bark Disease.

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal. 

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #23 The Amber Jelly Roll

  

I found a twig with a bit of "jelly" on it! Perhaps it is the Amber Jelly Roll fungus, Exidia recisa.

The gelatinous globules are attached to the twig at a single point. 

It may be flattened when dry but it will fill out again when wet. One side is smooth. 

The other side has minute scales.

I'm enjoying taking these close up shots with my new Canon PowerShot SX530 HS

Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal. 

#SketchbookRevival Day 4 with Wendy Hollender Seasonal Botanicals: Tulip Tree Buds

The theme for Day 4 of the Sketchbook Revival with Karen Abend is to invite Nature into your sketchbook. The prompt from Wendy Hollender is to use watercolor and colored pencil to sketch a botanical specimen and to learn about the plant by adding notes.

I only put down one layer of watercolor and one layer of colored pencil and then I added some lines with black ink. (Strathmore 400 Series Field Watercolor Journal) That's not exactly how the lesson goes - but that is more or less my style.

I added some notes:

Liriodendron tulipifera

1. The bilateral halves of the leaf blade are folded into a flag-like outline at the leaf emergence.

2. Distinctive rounded stipules occur at the base of each petiole (3) on the young leaves. They abscise during the summer.

4. Terminal bud is valvate (duck-billed).

5. Lateral buds are smaller.

6. Leaf scar.

7. Circling stipule scars.