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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.

I can hear Wendy’s voice : make sure there are some obvious white highlights – like overdo them! – and some dark darks for contrast since we’re on a midtone paper. Wendy loves putting her obvious highlights in first and really saturating them.

Thanks Ishbel. Yes it’s graphite. New home. Missing my garden of 30 years 😢. Learning to appreciate the things growing seaside now. Will have to raid my friends’ gardens! 😊

Love this Dora…is it graphite?

I definitely saw the way off highlights and worked on them just now. Luckily I have the leaves still. Thanks, Doug.

@Doug Thanks, and thank you for commenting on the ginko highlights. They’re definitely off. I’ll work on them.

Thanks Doug. I see what you mean – I’ll work on that a bit.

Wow Rita!!!! This drawing is fantastic!!!!! Love the delicacy of the petal details!!!! Wonderful, wonderful!!!!! You just keep getting better and better!!!!!!

Fantastic Sheila!!!! The bright highlight on the ginkgo leaves is throwing me a bit. Love the use of the bittersweet vine along the top that the other subjects descend from!!!!

Sorry about the rubber band on the left side. I’ll retake the photo on a sunny day and work on holding the page down.

So precious and pleasing to the eye ! Are you capturing those fine lines with watercolor or pencil?

Great job Ishbel! Love the colors and your lettering too! This is a tricky view to do and you are mostly there, but I find the toning confusing. The right side looks lighter than the left, except the cast shadow is on the right. I think part of the reason is your reflected highlight is too light and needs to be toned down, Also there are a few…[Read more]

Wonderful job Wendy!!!! I really like how a couple of the leaves go off the page!