The perennials have the advantage of having all the food they stored last year so they can grow early and very quickly in the spring when they wake up.
Your job this week is to find two interesting perennials in your natural area and draw what their growth looks like so far this spring.
One should be Woody Stemmed, and one should be herbaceous stemmed with new growth coming from the ground since only the roots survive the winter.
Be sure to take note of which plants you draw so you can come back in a month and revisit the same plant to see how it has progressed. Try to really capture details! Look close! Use words to describe them because they will be changing a LOT in the next few weeks.
Here are my examples: The first is in progress, showing how you should use a regular pencil to capture the shape and proportion and to label you drawings.
The second is closer to being finished with some added color and more labels describing what I was seeing.
