palms for lunch

[seejay]

Hi everyone,

Just did a couple of rough sketches at lunch. I couldn't get excited enough to pull out my pastels, so I went for these instead. Marker in sketch book.

About 20 minutes for the two of them. I think the images should be about the size they really are in my sketch book.

There are some nice trees around work here, including some coconut palms, and others.

Coconuts: These palms always have lots of coconuts hanging on them, but the fruit are no good, not properly developed inside.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/12-Nov-2002/palm1.jpg

Cabbage palm (indigineous to the area). These are tall and magnificent, one of the nicest plants around here. I love them. The sketch obviously doesn't do them much justice!;)

Shall have to do a longer one someday.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/12-Nov-2002/palm2.jpg


Cheers

[Elankat]

Nice sketches. I really like the top one. It looks like a good prospect for a detailed P & I.

[Jakeally]

Really nice sketches Chris.....I always find the palms so difficult to do....they always end up like lollypops.
I have a huge cabbage palm in my garden and it flowered beautifully this year....about ten flower spikes...thought you might like to see it
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/13-Nov-2002/CabbagePalm.jpg

[els]

These are really great sketches Chris. Agree with LeAnne, they would give very nice detailed drawings...

[TeAnne]

Very cool Chris :) At least you're doing sketches. :)

[mel-ink]

Great trees Chris!! *sigh* We certainly don't have these kinds of trees here, lucky you! I especially like the cabbage palm!

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[Arcanjo]

:) Lovely sketches!

[seejay]

Thanks everyone for responding! I appreciate the feedback and encouragement.

A couple of you have convinced me to spend some more time to do a more detailed picture, so I'll try to dedicate my lunch times next week towards that goal. See how I go, anyway!:D

Thanks for the photo Chris. I find it hard to imagine we are talking about the same species of palm, I always associate my particular ones with tropical/sub-tropical climates. The flowers look different, these ones usually have a more yellow/orange colour. You've got me curious about your palm....do you have a botanical name?

( I just did a search on the Internet, and there are two species commonly called cabbage palm in Australia; one species
Livistona australis is cold tolerant apparently - may be your one.
The other one occurs in Queensland coastal areas, Livistona decipiens.)

Note to everyone - find those 20 minute breaks, and get sketching!!!! (Pen & Ink preferred, so you can post them here!)

Thanks and cheers, everybody!

[Jakeally]

Hi Chris.....sorry I don't know the botanical name for this one. We bought it about 14 years ago and the name was just cabbage palm. It took about 5 years to grow to 12 feet or so and then got frosted and fell over. We thought we had lost it but the next year it threw out 3 shoots which are now about 14 feet high. Its a really lovely thing and I hope we don't loose it.
I will try to find out what it is:D

[seejay]

Hi Chris,

Sounds like a good tough plant, but these 'tough as boots' cabbage palms don't shoot. They do drop a lot of seeds, tho', and these tend to clump up a lot.

Cheers