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Struggling with the rose and composition… Should I add a couple of leaves behind the rose? Are the dark areas too dark?

Hi Renata- adding the stem to the middle leaf cluster helped a lot! I don’t think the dark areas are too dark and I would actually add more dark to the flower to help differentiate some of the petals. I liked the simplicity of the drawing before you added the flower at the bottom. That throws the composition off to me. On the left side you could a…[Read more]

Thanks for the helpful feedback, Doug! I will rework this and share asap (being really slow lately!).

Hi Karen- nice job on this leaf! Good rich mix of greens! Some veins are minimal, but I would look at your leaf again to see if the veins are accurate. Usually the main vein starts wider at the base and tapers as it goes up the leaf and the secondary veins often break up before reaching the edge of the page. I would lighten and smooth out the…[Read more]

This is a very large sand dollar that’s kind of shaped like a flower. I would appreciate any feedback! Thank you

Really lovely. So much detail in those little sandy puffs and the cast shadow is so soft.

So beautifully soft and sandy – the detail is exquisite.

Wonderful Jill!!! The toning is great and allows you see and appreciate every detail! Love the cast shadow too!

Jill, I love this. I’d love to pick it up. This was my favorite “shell” (not sure how you say it). I lived on Ocracoke Island several summers and picked up so many of these. Your gorgeous drawing takes me right back the those wide, empty of people beaches that had treasures like you draw!

Wow, continues to be so hard to draw and color real flowers! But fun. I’m having a lot of trouble blending colors to look smooth and delicate on the petals.

Hi Clotilde- nice job on this lily! The colors are really nice! It is currently a little hard to read because the petals and stamens are the same color. The highlight on the curled petal on the right is really good! It took me a while to see that was a curled petal and adding more dark toning on the underside of the curl would help it read better.…[Read more]

Thank you Doug, I will make all of those adjustments.

Lovely. I will be using this as a reference for beautiful leaves.

Thank you Julie! It was interesting because the backs of the leaves were as exposed almost as much as the fronts.

Doug, what a wonderful drawing, the fruit, the leaves, the composition. It’s elegant!! And, a fantastic teaching study for all of us students. Thanks for posting it.

Thanks Sheila! I fudged in 4 of the fruits to help with the composition. It was a little bare with just one fruit.

It was so great to see everybody at the workshop and to be drawing together in Wendy’s pavilion!!!!

I like this so much. The leaves, the flowers and the way you used the paper from edge to edge!

So pretty. I’m digging the flower stems attaching to the vine.

As a beginner this looks like a difficult composition. Very impressed with all those stems being clustered yet each one is distinct.

Thank you! There are certain plants I end up drawing repeatedly and the trumpet vine is one of them. Each part is unique and fun to draw!!!

Great job Rita!!!! It is beautifully rendered with nice rich, saturated color!

love that male Wood Fern

Ferns are on my “someday but not yet” list. These are wonderful.

Thanks so much for your feedback- the encouragement always helps!