Butterfly Pea Vine

Butterfly pea in flower, with pod and seed. A botanical watercolour study.

How this was made

This piece began with a written instruction alone, with no photograph. The instruction is kept, so the record is complete rather than flattering.

THE PROMPT AND THE SETTINGS

PROMPT

POSITIVE:
A botanical watercolour plate of a twining stem of butterfly pea, Clitoria ternatea. Three open flowers in deep ultramarine blue, each seen face-on: a single broad, rounded standard petal forms almost the whole flower, with a pale yellow-white blaze at its centre where the small wing and keel petals sit folded together. One further flower seen in side view, drawn accurately: the broad standard petal curves as a shallow open shell, with the small keel and wing petals held at its base and a short green tubular calyx behind it - a pea-flower shape, never a trumpet, funnel or bell. A few pinnate leaves with five oval leaflets, a curling tendril, and a small flat seed pod and a single seed drawn separately below. Scientific botanical-illustration precision, fine sable-brush line and smooth graded washes, specimen centred on warm white paper with wide empty margins, soft even light, no background. No text, no signature, no border.

SETTINGS

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aspect: 2:3
resolution: 1344x2016
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quality: high
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source-id: Lct9MXkJb4HLyBomliwc
generated: 2026-09-29

NOTE

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How this was made

PROMPT

SETTINGS

NOTE

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