Chrysanthemum leaves practice

Chrysanthemum is one of the Four Gentlemen. This flower, along with bamboo, plum and orchid are usually become basic training subject in sumi-e or ink brush painting. It was hard for me to take on this lesson for several reasons. The first is probably because I am not familiar with this beautiful flower and plant. I have no direct observation necessary in catching the spirit of the flower. So, all I did was downloading photos from different internet resources, spending quite some times on staring at the pictures, and doing the exercise. This is one of my exercise with chrysanthemum;