Clematis 'Paul Farges'

I'm back from my trip to visit family and have been experimenting with some new art materials, mostly to do with painting on fabric.  While waiting for a coat of antifusant to dry on silk, I decided to draw a stem of clematis 'Paul Farges', since it's flowering exuberantly now in my garden and needs to be cut back anyway.

Usually my drawings are based on 2D images I've found, often online.  Now I want to concentrate more on drawing from life.  I initially shied away from it because it's harder to go from 3D to 2D and from a frame-less composition to something that's already been framed by the edges of a page.  But drawing from life will let me be much more inventive so I think it's important to focus my attention there.