I like to hear the rattle of the poppy seeds inside the poppy heads. I grow a couple of different varieties of poppies in my garden, the yellow poppies that I have shown you in more recent posts and a purple poppy. These are the seed heads from those purple poppies.
The poppy heads start off green and as they dry they go a pale beige colour with hints of green, purple and blue, before eventually turning light brown.
I sketched out a couple of the older poppy seed heads using a pencil. The seed heads were still full of poppy seeds so they had a delightful rattle to them as I moved them around the page!
I drew over the pencil lines with black drawing ink using a dip pen. Once the ink was dry I erased the pencil.
The next stage is to add watercolour, and I'll be posting about that soon!
