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Thank you! Most of the drawing I’ve done in the past has been in graphite, so this part doesn’t seem to unfamiliar. I’m still having trouble making the jump to thinking about colour. Is it okay to go so dark if I were to add colour ontop, or is the graiselle stage meant to be more subtle?

Gotta Macgyver these things whenever possible!

I don’t know how “of” became “odiferous”! Sorry for any confusion!

What great texture on your green cucurbita pepo! Is it the same as a zuchini? (I tried googling this and didn’t feel very enlightened by the end.)

Thanks, Doug. My perpetual journal is fun for playing around, which I guess I do on regular pages, but it’s short and sweet until …next year’s week comes around.

Especially love the maple seed Sheila! It is making me think of Autumn, which you can tell is coming. There have been days where there was that autumn feeling in the light and air! Can’t wait!

As they say – practice makes perfect! Or something like that! Nice job!

Yes Sara! Great form and more saturated color! It still has a really earthy feel to it, which is fantastic! It looks like it was just pulled out odiferous the ground! Congrats!

This is beautifully rendered Sara and you have achieved wonderful form. There is a lot of texture showing and I assume that is from the paper you are using. Fantastic job with the reflected light too! It has the organic shape you want to convey a glow! Bravo!

You did an amazing job getting the kneaded erasers so smooth and round! Love your ingenuity!

So fun Sheila! And I love the title!

I was amazed at how much I was able to improve my control over the course of the afternoon just be repeating the same exercise. Look at those blotchy and streaky first attempts!

Thank you for your feedback! I went back and tried changing it, and it does look better. Also, I belated realized that it’s a beet, not a radish, so I changed the title, but wanted other people to know that your comment made sense at the time!

@doug-milne Thank you for your suggestions on the beet (previously labelled radish, my mistake!). Pushing both the highlight and shadow did help with the form. The colours are a little off in this one because I tried photographing it instead of scanning, but it still has the nice soft feel in real life.

I really like Wendy’s wooden shapes she uses to demonstrate light sources. This was my makeshift solution using my kneaded erasesr!