A Tale of Two Honeysuckles

Drawing lovely Lonicera sempervirens (plus a pencil warmup!)

Welcome to our first official post! It’s very late in the season for wildflowers, but our drawing subject is always the last one left blooming - a bright spot of color in a landscape fading gently toward winter.

The first video is a pencil drawing warmup, and isn’t honeysuckle at all. It’s Callery pear, the bad boy of runaway horticulture. I’ll tell you …