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Theresia, this is beautiful! I love the bright saturated colors. Those variegated leaves are so interesting, You did a lovely job of showing the twists and curves of those leaves. You might want to consider toning down the highlights on some of your petals. The flower that is open on the upper right: the highlights on the left and right petal are…[Read more]

Thank you Pam! Should I see the whole blossom as one object like a sphere? So I place the main highlight like I would ( more or less) on the sphere? That’s good advice as I got a little confused about the possibilities of highlights a plant can offer with their various amount of petals, I guess! 🙃 I keep the curvy stem in mind (definitely!) My t…[Read more]

Oh, sorry Pam. I see what you mean. You mean the small tulip above on the right. It’s a straight line through the whole paige! That’s very boring. Right! Won‘t happen again. Thanks!

These are so cute! I love the little peak of the gills. You can really feel the waxy texture of the surface of the cap, and your highlights are lovely. I especially love that highlight along the cap’s edge – very successful. Nice shading under the capes, and I really like the detail on the stipe. And that little tuft of leaves on the bottom is…[Read more]

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You know I love these, Peta! Are you familiar with Margaret Saylor’s work? She gave a delightful presentation on her mushroom field sketches at last year’s American Society of Botanical Artists conference. I think you might dig her work (no pun intended).

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@petapumpkineater I think you did a fantastic job with these mushrooms! They look like they could be in a field guide. As for Margaret Saylor, I think she uses graphite pencil and watercolor. (She’s also a delightful personality as mushroom people tend to be!) I got some drawing in today of what I hope are budding maianthemum stellatum and some…[Read more]

Gorgeous Rita!!! You really challenged yourself and it certainly paid off!!!!!

Oh Rita, This is great! All of those little kernels are drawn beautifully with lovely highlights and shadows. You rendered great detail, while still maintaing 3D form on the cob – wonderful! The dry leaves are really nice too. I love the variety of colors. I think you could push the 3D form of that group of leaves a bit more by toning that whole…[Read more]

This is so rad!!!

I love this! the contrasting textures are so compelling!

Oh my word!!! I can’t even imagine how much time it took to do each of those little kernals! Might have to study this picture for a while. It’s incredible!

The tulip on the left is particularly good Cathie. One of the reasons it is successful is the highlights. They are not as strong on the tulip on the right and I think it would help to look at that again. Both tulips and the stems and leaves could use some dark toning. It would especially help the tulip on the right. It is hard to differentiate the…[Read more]

Hi Renata- The leaves have a beautiful range of greens and a great sense of movement! Looking forward to see how your drawing progresses!