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Alpine wormwood

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This new little doodle here was commissioned by Stefania, a friend of mine.
She runs a small DIY store which, among nails, hammers and vinilic glues, deals also with garden plants. This year her husband and she created a new expositive area in the form of a mountain cottage and their main question was: how to name this new garden house? Let's ask around!
And so she asked her friends (me included) for some name suggestions.

I came up with Artemisia, both a plant genus quite common in our area and a famous female painter of XVII century, Artemisia Gentileschi (here some info [link]). It was love at first sight: so the garden house "Artemisia" was born.

Given my painting naturalistic subjects, she commissioned me an Artemisia painting.
Which one to choose?
My choice fell on the Alpine wormwood ([link] - Italian only, sorry!), a plant used in our mountains together with similar others to make the Genepì [link] , a really famous infusion liqueur.
Since Stefania lives up in the mountains, this small alpine weed was perfect! :)

Done with watercolours and pen (left window) and watercolours and coloured pencils (righ branch).

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Image size
900x601px 289.5 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon PowerShot A410
Shutter Speed
1/251 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
5 mm
Date Taken
May 10, 2011, 8:24:55 AM
Sensor Size
1mm
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