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Ochres are nice for toning lemons. You can even try some purple for the shaded rounding of lemons. Saturate the yellows and oranges! These are very fun to do on Kraft paper as well.

Also, I really like the still life you have set up here. Inspiring.

my first flower.

Fantastic! You could darken your greens on the leaf behind the overlap of the petal lower left. That’ll push that leaf back farther and push the white flower forward. Use some chrome oxide green and dark sepia. Same thing on the other leaves. Darken where they go behind the flowers in front. Keep highlights of course.

And Brava on your first flower. 🙂

I’ve never drawn such a complicated shape, with so many overlapping parts before. It was challenging! I’d appreciate any feedback 😊 thank you!

Clearly you were prepared for the challenge! What an impressive creature – I am very pleased to make its acquaintance. I mean, you did a stellar job. Question – are the forms actually that neatly tubular or are they more modified/modulated? I think this drawing would benefit from the trick where you sneak in a few long strokes of a warmer colour…[Read more]

Looking good, Bettina!

You can try going around the edges with a sharp coloured pencil to give the seeds clean edges. Some people like using Verithins, others just very sharp Polychromos.

The beans are starting

Gorgeous bean portraits! I want a good highlight on the largest one. Maybe you can darker the browns around the edges and leave a lighter highlight running down the left of centre.

Love those!

I added a few more darks

Good job. I feel like it is begging for some watercolour layers. Try extending one side of the stem at the bottom just a bit, so as not to have a straight cut off horizontal line.

Looking very good! Nice addition of darks!

So shiny!!! Excellent shine. Really looks like a waxy surface. Make sure the edges are clean, and I feel like the centre can use some more clarity/definition.

Thank you for the feedback, @sam-mcwilliams! Very helpful. I will work on the edges and the centre and update you.

Deepened the color in that front pod to try to bring it forward. Lifted some color from the leaf bc I thought it was becoming too important (it looks terrible right now, but I plan to try to make it better). I’m thinking about attaching something to one of those peduncles (or turn one of them into a leaf or something) to curve down toward that c…[Read more]

Wow. It made a huge difference, there is definitely depth now! Really beautiful.

Thanks, Renata

Love the softness and subtlety here, beautiful!

It’s so beautiful, Pam. I wonder if you’ve posted again and I’ll get to it as I scroll. I wonder if there could be some touch more darks in the inside of that top curled leaf. Also wonder if it would be permissible for some bit of fluff to be drawn blowing across the page – one got free? Wind borne? All the other elements you wrote about I think…[Read more]

Nice leaf Laurie! It has good structure and nice pillowing!

You’re going to have such an impressive book. 🙂

Love it as usual. Can’t recall if you’ve used any of Jean’s “colour behind the subjects” yet. Something to keep in mind for some pages.

Where’s my heart emoji? I like knowing that I’m in Cara’s yard here.

I am finding these pages very inspiring!

Good work, Yahya. This is a very nice leaf portrait. I like your colours and the way you have shown shaded area on the outer left and to the right of the main vein. Your shading looks nice and soft. Your cast shadow is also done nice and softly. I think the cast shadow would come out a bit more to the right of the right leaf edge. On your next…[Read more]