Lotus flower

There is something otherworldly about the flowers and the seed cups of the lotus. I hadn’t realized just how incredible these are until I saw masses of them in the Japanese area of the Montreal Botanical Gardens. Those giant flowers hover above the saucer-like leaves, twisting and turning in the wind. And I wasn’t alone in my amazement because each person walking by stopped to gawk and snap photos.

I have recently updated the Summer Workshops section of my site. You can now see photos and sketches from Montreal, Paris and Portland all on one page. There’s even a link to the wonderful video that Michel Colson made of the Paris workshop. Now that the summer workshop season is almost over, it is fantastic to look back at everyone I met, see all the work that they produced and pause to think how far this blog project has taken me since October 2011. Feel free to have a look…