Inspired By…Pokeweed

With this post, I am starting a new “Inspired By…” series. From time to time, I will post a snippet of something I’m working on and label what has inspired my creative work. Today, I’m kicking off this intermittent series with my old friend, Pokeweed.

I have a dried Pokeweed berry cluster hanging on the wall of my studio, and I recently took it down and spent some time studying it and sketching the graceful line of the center stalk and the highly-textured shapes of the puckered berries. I selected a portion of the sketch that had graphic excitement (the design kind, not the bedroom kind  ;-) and began playing with that segment, digitally. The result is my most recent nature-inspired mandala.

Pokeweed Berries Mandala 1: See What I Can Do?

All images and text copyright Anne Sailer, 2010.