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My eye goes right away to the glowing green/yellow to the left of the lower flower centre. I love the dark recess to light glow contrast there. The green/red palette is vibrant and the red edging of the petals is wonderful. Nice, delicate striations on the petals. And the red speckling- what a journey you went on here. Thanks for bringing me along. 🙂

I’m really enjoying the scattered needles.

Again, all I can say is I agree with Doug! This is such a strong, engaging drawing. Plus, look how many exclamation points you elicited from Doug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of my favs of yours, yet, and I already have so many favs. 🙂

Lovely, Ishbel. I didn’t try the top down view – next time.

Again, so rich. I love your drawings so much. We need a long piece of paper to capture the length and majesty of these guys. Beautiful crisp. papery folds/curves. 🙂 You captured it so well.

This is so gorgeous and soft and delicate. I think the splatters are what makes it! Hooray for mistakes turning into creative wins. It is very storybook too – like what is that one red berry going to get up to?

Oooh neat Rita! I’ve never tried the black paper – you’re inspiring me.

This i s very beautiful, Cathie. Nice colour palette of warms and cools. Engaging composition. The twist and seeds! (That bottom seed maybe got a bit big!) Wendy has a lesson on drawing ellipses in citrus in The Joy of Botanical Drawing, if you’d like to practice.

I really like this drawing, Konjit. Keep up the good work!

Keep up the good work, Fiona!

“Dances with Samaras”

Gorgeous. Love how saturated you got. It glows! – so rich

Oooh, agree – so wonderful. So much movement – so fun for the eye to dance around the page. I love that the magnified portion curves back toward the plant. So vibrant, full of joy.

Looks so great, Sara. The blue makes the yellow pop. I like the colours you used in the toning of the lemons. Not a big deal – but note to self for future reference -the shape of the cut lemon – the top right side of it is perhaps a bit straight, making its shape on the right look a bit like the shape of a muffin bottom instead of a curving…[Read more]

Wow! That lemon is glowing so beautifully. Excellent work on the lights to darks in that lemon. The overall colour palette is lovely also.

Yes – that dried orange really pulls me in. I love Doug’s comment – A Charlie Brown Xmas pageant as well, setting the stage for the whole play. 🙂

Woah! Woah Woah! Wowzers. Rich, smooth, glowing.. this is good for my soul as the snow turns to freezing rain then slush up here. 🙂 Love the bend on that bottom leaf coming towards me. Those reds – so Vibrant Harriet!

Yeah Pam!

Thank you for sharing your notes with us, Karen, sentiments that so many of us can relate to. – gives the drawing and observation so much more meaning. I think of my dad with the xmas cactus.