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Hi Karen, I love fiddleheads! Great to see an interesting study of them. I particularly like the way you have drawn the curling cylinder of the center vein. That highlight on the top is spot on. I’d like to see you define more what is happening as they emerge from the ground. And I don’t think you need a cast shadow. Or if you do include one be…[Read more]

Hi Karen, These blossoms are so feathery and delicate. You have really captured those qualities. Especially on the bottom one. Nice job!

Hi Cynthia, This is beautiful. I love your rich dark browns! And the way you are capturing the feather texture. I’m seeing that you are observing a high light edge on the right side of the feather, but be careful not to let it look like a uniform outline. Break it up a bit and tone down the value. Also that light line on the right side of the stem…[Read more]

Thanks so much Katy! I appreciate you feedback about the high light on the edge and on the stem.

This is gorgeous! You are in the flow for sure, my friend. Just beautiful.

Hopefully the writing at the top of this page will improve after taking Vern’s class this month. Need a lot of improvement. Also, for next month’s Art Feed the assignment is to create a focal spot in our drawings. It seems like the lettering has become the focal spot in this one which was not intended. Any feedback would be appreciated. My eye…[Read more]

Gorgeous Mary Jo!!!! Great composition! The focal point to me is that beautiful flower and I find it hard to take my eyes off it!!!! All aspects of this drawing are wonderfully rendered!!! Personally I don’t think you needed the title at the top. Especially with it having a white background I find it distracting, but that beautiful flower still wins!!!!

Love this Sheila!!! It looks like the seeds are drawn on the background paper and I love the mix with the applied pieces!!!!

This is such a great progression – the cut outs and the drawn ons.

Beautiful leaf Laurie!!! Love the rich greens you used and the range of tones. Great job!

Nice work Ingrid!!! Love the leaves!! I would revisit the parts of the leaves where they curl up and you are seeing the underside of them. It seems like those areas would be in shadow more than they are shown. The flowers are a beautiful golden-yellow! I would darken the base of the petals and the overlaps to set off the centers – the front…[Read more]

@DougMilne thank you Doug for your helpful advice, I’ ll give it a try …find it rather challenging with the colour yellow 😉

This is a rose I started drawing from life last year. I’ve got the drawing back out and am working on it more, using photos I took as reference. I want to add leaves, too. I’d appreciate suggestions to improve this. Thank you.

Hi Carol, Beautiful. Just keep doing what you are doing. You might think of adding some water color at some point.