Whacky Plants

These whacky and interesting plants simply had to be included. They are very inspiring and I wished I had had time to do more sketching, but my "orchid a day" took all the time I could take off from reading, swimming and being sociable.

I'd love to get back to drawing them.

Whacky plants like this can be stylised fabulously because they lend themselves to a naïve form of art rather than sophisticated Arts and Crafts stylisation. In Arts and Crafts decorative design, the leaves and tendrils follows conventional growth patterns – alternating leaves, corollary petal arrangements etc. In naïve art one might find a sudden uncomfortably displaced waterfall of beads emanating from a tree trunk.

The middle photo is a coconut and my little grandaughter even had one in the flat which she'd picked up on the beach which had subsequently sprouted. (It occasionally gets tossed into the bath to water it. They really will have to address the issue of the palm tree they are growing in the condo. at some point, if only from a size point of view!)
The third plant is a staghorn fern, with fronds that grow hugging the sphere while the other sort of frond (leaf) spirals off from the centre.

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