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To Wendy: I forgot to correct the placement of the pit! But I will!

Big mistake to do this on Kraft I think.

Hi Erin, I’m glad to see you moving in to flowers. This is a great study page for your first foray! Lovely details on the petals. The one comment I have is that you seem to be losing some of the dynamics. The highlights are missing and I’d like to see a few darker darks in those little triangles where the petals meet.

Hi Zara, nice smooth toning on this pear. The delicate transition to the highlights is beautiful. I’d like to see you include a core shadow and reflective light .If you have Wendy’s The Joy of Botanical Drawing, check out pages 43-45. She has great instruction on these aspects. In general, think about the light source. How is the light landing o…[Read more]

Hi Margaret, lovely composition! I like the way the stem coils around the garlic! And the way one feels the papery quality of the skins on the inner segments of the bulb. Nicely done.

Starting on flowers!

Exquisite! That textured highlight is so beautifully rendered.

Hi Dora- this pomegranate is just gorgeous!!! To start with it looks amazing on the Kraft paper, but the colors and the highlights, everything is just working to perfection!!! Love it!!! I don’t want to take my eyes off it!!! So good to see your work again!!! This one really makes me happy!!!

This is beautifully rendered Dora! I am not sure if these are berries or flowers, but I would make the highlight stronger and add more ranges of tone on some of them to enhance their form.

Hi Dora!!! I really like the composition and how the image goes off the page. It gives the impression that you are actually in the shrub! The leaves do not have much detail (veins), but they are beautiful shades of greens! The berry on the left could use some more ranges of tone to enhance it’s form and I think all of them would benefit from a s…[Read more]

Nice page Maureen! I really like the mix of b/w and color! I think you could go with some more dark toning along the right sides of the carrots to enhance their form and also a couple of areas where they overlap. The highlights seem to mostly go right down the center of the carrots and I would expect the highlight to be a little left of center.

What a great page of textures Rita! I particularly love the flower and it’s papery texture and luminous quality and colors!!! The downy softness of the feather also reads very well! One thing I would revisit is the nut-seed pod(?) It is a beautiful rich color, but without a highlight and a range of tones it does not have any form that I can see.