End of summer

Although I no longer have a teacher's holidays I still plan as if I did!  I intended to do so much!  I completed an artichoke, flowering, in coloured pencil, but it is not right.  

Artichoke
coloured pencil

The seed pods picture is almost done.  
I am working on a depiction of the cliffs at Capel where I was bowled over by the dark silhouettes of the alexanders  (Smyrnium olusatrum) among the golden grasses.  I am using a big piece of paper and the plant material is tall.  The only way I seem to be able to manage is sitting on the floor, the board resting on my knees and against the table edge with the plant material in a vase also on the floor.  It is all very uncomfortable! There should be an easier way.

Smyrnium olusatrum or Alexander on the cliff top.

Cannot wait for the class to start again but meantime I am going to Florum at Sevenoaks and to +Kew Gardens  to see the Rory McEwen exhibition.