Day eighty-eight of The 100 Day Project for 2021.
Our baby avocado plant had some issues since the power outages last week.
I didn't notice on the night, but the next day there was a strange browning on its first layer of leaves. It was generally toward the tips of the leaves but to varying degrees. This leaf was falling off today, and I proactively cut the other leaves off a little later.
I hope it was just damage caused by the scented candle lit nearby to the plant that night and not something ongoing.
Thankfully our first avocado plant didn't seem to be affected in the same way, and the leaves on the top of the baby plant are still okay. A new batch of leaves has appeared at the top of the stem in the past day or two.
I pinched off the new leaves from the older plant this morning to try to encourage wider branching. It felt kind of destructive, but that's what the advice is.
Back to 'a sketchy practice': when I caught up with Scott on Tuesday, he put forward a potential subject for the project. Funnily enough, it was one I'd contemplated doing from a similar photograph I took a while back. I was worried it would be too complicated to render with my still developing skills.
But, I will try to give it a go, even if it's a more minimalist, simplified version.
With only 12 more days left of this year's project: if you have a request or suggestion for a subject for one of my remaining sketches, feel free to comment on this post or any new posts or to email me. I can't promise anything, but if I think I can do it, I will!
Yesterday's sketch was completed initially with a 4H pencil, then overdrawn and shaded with a mixture of HB and B pencils.