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Hi Sara, Loving your version of your perpetual journal. I really enjoy your text style, find it easy to read and compelling. I look at the page marked with a thoughtful beautiful illustration,,and then the text calls out to me. I think everyone here would love to know more about how you add your text to the page. Care to share that here or in one…[Read more]

Thanks for the feedback! The object on top of the line is a flower that was in my pile of botanical stuff. I can’t remember the name; other folks were drawing that little guy also. Yes it’s all pretty random but I agree that it would be fun to show stuff overlapping.

It’s impossible to look at this without feeling joy. It’s beautiful. It’s going to be fun and instructive to see what decisions you make while you are finishing this piece. It’s gorgeous as is, and I would even call it finished to my eye. One of the things that hit me when I first saw this was how your method of working lends to a very cohesive…[Read more]

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I really like the analogous colors in this composition, it has a vibrant, yet calming feeling to it. You are doing a nice job of showing how those petals bend and curl, and you are using your dark colors to nicely show how the centers of those flower dip down into that long tube formed by the bottoms of the petals. The flower on the upper right…[Read more]

All of these pages of yours are making me want to visit Hawaii and learn about these fantastic plants. I like your spiral within a spiral. I feel like your composition is hypnotic. These are all nicely rendered. There is something about the quality of that brain fruit that just adore. Great work.

Another fun page, Dolores. I love the bright colors together with the more muted colors, and the variety of subjects. I really like the way that leaf is giving the flower a hug. There is one spot where I’d like to understand what’s going on a bit more. There is a subject that is touching the top of the lime, and I’m not sure what it is. It looks…[Read more]

Dolores, thanks for sharing your work from Hawaii. I’m excited to see what you all were working on while there. I love this warm up page. I especially like the branch. You are showing nice perspective. The front of the branch comes out toward the viewer nicely – good use of size and detail to show that. The highlights and the shadows are also…[Read more]

I think if you are going to make time to fit something into your schedule, drawing time is the best! So, it’s great that your perpetual journal is what you are focusing on. Drawing is what makes or breaks a botanical piece. If you don’t get the drawing correct, there is nothing you can do with color to make it better. Getting that practice in will…[Read more]

Back from Hawaii and have now set up my brand new drawing board so I can adjust the height and angle for working on large artwork. It is really important to be as comfortable as possible when you work. Now I can reach the top easily to work on details.

Actually the pattern was very subtle and I can see that I didn’t do I good job at displaying it. The yellow was much paler too which I find difficult to reproduce as I mentioned . above. Thank you Pam.

Thanks for your encouragement Pam!
Some weeks my perpetual journal is the only drawing I do. I’ve love the discipline of it. I did miss one week in June of 2021. I think I’m like many people who like to draw plants; I like to grow plants too. The height of the gardening season competes for drawing time. And just when there are so many luscious…[Read more]