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Margaret, I made a little drawing of how I go about my cast shadows. @doug-milne, will you check it over to make sure I’m not suggesting any bad habits?

Thank you both. I had a lot of fun doing this page! These have got to be my favourite colours to work with.

Thanks Doug. I’ll try those techniques. Thanks Sara for the encouragement!

Hi Becky- you could go in with a barely wet brush and lift some of the color where it is splotchy. Keep putting the color you are lifting with the brush onto a paper towel (something absorbent) and continue alternating lifting the color and putting it on the paper towel. Sometimes, when the paper is very dry you can erase watercolor. Warning! The…[Read more]

Agreeing with the above. We had a mountain ash in my childhood home and I always loved the orange berries. You captured them beautifully.

Love the colours on the grapes!

This is beautiful! Siberian Iris was always a favourite of my Grandma and my mom always had it in the garden as well. Your purples are so pretty. I love the delicate little veins in the petals.

There’s so much to do on leaves, they always feel overwhelming. (Gotta dedicate some time to them soon.) Yours is coming along so well. I’m going to stay tuned and see what suggestions the instructors make. 🙂

Still working on this. Will shade on the left side to show veining. My watercolor highlights turned out splotchy. Any advice is appreciated.

I also love the composition and beautiful colors!