Smelling the Roses

This took forever for me to draw:

Try 1:

Try 2:

Try 3:

Try 4:

The final crowquill pen and ink drawing:

I blew up huge copies of the drawing and mounted them and left a few around town. This one's at the Denver Botanical Gardens:

Outside the Vance Kirkland Museum:

The idea was to draw from an original snapshot and then, reintroduce the figure into the real world again, in an attempt to re-capture a memory.