Nettle

My clan motto is "Touch not the cat, bot the glove". Basically this means don't go handling angry wildcats without a big set of gloves on, and possibly a helmet.

I used those family gloves today to "grasp the nettle" literally. This was a properly precarious still life to set up. In the large view you can see those barbs pretty vividly.

I'm planning this as part of my still-life series but I'm not entirely happy with it. I think it might be a little bit less structural, architectural even, than the others in the series.

Next up... Docken Leaf. :)