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Advice please!
I set these lemons up on a white surface and the part I’m pointing to looked bright. I arbitrarily made the surface blue. Does that area need to go darker now for the composition/light source to make sense?

Good reminder about the basics. I will try to be more patient!

Hi Karen- It really helps to put the toning layer on first before you add the color. Also making sure you are leaving the areas where you want the highlights to be. That way you have the form established right from the onset. As you do add color some of the original toning will become obscured, but you adjust the toning as you go. Your original…[Read more]

Breathtaking Harriet!!! It’s a Master’s Class!!!! Merry Christmas!

Magnificent work. Merry Christmas.

Christmas greetings to my friends at Draw Botanical. I’m looking forward to another year of thoughtful encouragement and support from you all. Harrietxx

Thanks for your feedback, Doug! So happy to hear from you. I see what you mean about the arrangement. I’m glad I took the accordion journal class for a lot of reasons, one being segments of paper growing in both directions! Happy holidays to you all!!

You are off to a good start Karen. The colors are great! The berries need more range of tones to establish their form. I would expect to see more highlights and a range of tones into the dark toning on each individual berry. Take a look at your leaves again. At the most basic level, leaves have a light side and dark especially along the primary…[Read more]

Beautiful Laurie! Your toning is really good as is the color selection and saturation! I would tone down the reflected highlight a little. It should not be as bright as the main highlight. Wonderful job!!!

Beautiful Margaret! The colors are so nice and I love how you have positioned the subject on the page. The angle is really pleasing! Great leaves!

Nice job Jane! The onion has really nice form! I would look at the highlight again. Onion skin highlights are more linear than round as you have shown, but I think it could be a little brighter and I would expect to see more highlight than what you have shown. I am confused by the area on the top left. It is the same color and texture as the rest…[Read more]

Great job Jane! You have wonderful smooth toning!!!! The one thing I would revisit is the highlight. It is too straight (they generally follow the shape of the branch) and it seems too bright. Unless the branch has very shiny bark the highlight would be softer. Highlights will often have breaks in intensity along the way, r.e. where a bud is…[Read more]

Great Sheila! I really like how you have laid the subjects out with the weightier subjects in the middle and the wispier subjects on the fringes! I also really like how the subjects on the outside edges are facing the edge of the paper! Wonderful!

Thanks Pam. What an encouraging message!