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@pgthompson It was so nice to meet you today in the zoom. Thanks for helping me so much today. I’ve done a couple and am now going to give it a rest because it’s frustrating me. 🙂

Looking great, Peta! I love the one top right. Yes, give em a rest – they deserve it – they’ve been working so hard. 🙂

Peta, It was great to meet you too! You are doing a really nice job with those bracts. They are tough little buggers. There’s a nursery near me that has a bougainvillea in their greenhouse. I’ll see if they’ll let me take some bracts home with to play with.

@pgthompson ooooh, if you ever draw one yourself I’d love to see it pretty please! 🙂

you bet!

Good practice, Kyra. Good to practice making some embossed marks lighter and different sizes. And “random” like you have lower left. Resist the urge to make neat rows or pairs.

Great feather collection. Keep up the good work. Sharpen those pencils when you want to get a really fine, thin feather line out at the edges. Also, like Pam did in the Open Studio demo, you can try holding your pencil far back and toning very softly and patiently to build up soft, smooth layers.

Those colors are spot on! Lovely.

Kyra, this is a great practice page. It could be fun for you to also try the waxed paper lifting technique on these studies. If you haven’t seen that technique yet, you just take a piece of kitchen waxed paper, and put it on top of an area of your colored pencil drawing where you want to lift out some color and use your embossing tool on top of…[Read more]

Pretty! The composition is fun to look at. The whites pop so well and the green leaves look great on their own branch aside the white flowers. Nice movement in the branches.

Nice. Now you can try using the cad lemon yellow pencil over your green to smooth it out and brighten the green a bit. Clean up the petal edges by smoothly toning with white from the edges in just a bit. Show me the green that’s behind the reproductive parts and in between the white petals. Putting the green behind those repro parts will pop the…[Read more]

Nice vibrant whites, Kyra. I like how you are showing how those branches change their angles as they grow at each node. Very nice.

Yep – you are getting the overlap idea. Cool to see you drawing while traveling. 🙂

Nice color matching for limes here. Cool writing! Your front highlight can move left a bit. I like the shadow behind the top nub on the rear lime. You can still darken these lime “spheres” a bit more increase the 3D illusion shading. Looking good!

Nice! Make sure your stem connects to the centre of the flower. Love the perspective on this one. Shading is looking good as is the believability of those petals curling out from the centre of the flower. Nice super darks in those little “V”s where it counts.

Nice Kyra. What a great example of how little bits of darks can make a huge impact.

Cathie, this has a lovely soft ethereal quality to it. You have a nice range of values in the lighter range, and I would like to see you add some more values in the darker range in some areas. I’m having a little bit of trouble figuring out the overlaps in the petals of that main blossom. You might want to go in with a really sharp colored pencil,…[Read more]

I like your attention/observation to the pistil and anthers. I also like the movement and the bluey-green you’ve captured.