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The cut out additions you use in your work are so cool! What inspired it? Was it originally a way to play around with composition, or to take favourite bits and discard parts of drawings you weren’t happy with? Is it part of the perpetual journal technique, or something you came up with independently?

Hi Doug, thanks for the feedback! I’ll go back and either try adding more dark tones to this one or try a whole new one. This one is Both watercolour and pencil. (Maybe only two washes in watercolour?) Most of my standalone practice has been watercolour so far, because I haven’t used it in the past and it’s the part of the process that I’m most…[Read more]

Yes, WOW!!

whoops on the grammar there…

Thanks for all these helpful suggestions. I knew I wasn’t getting “accurate.” but I am enjoyed a slightly less accurate process. I might try another one.

I meant to mention that Pam recently posted a wonderful drawing of a cone flower and the seed heads are particularly amazing! You can clearly see the structure of the seed heads and it is a great reference.

Hi Maria- nice job on the cone flower! They are deceivingly very hard to draw. Especially the seed heads, which have a definite structure to them. You have added toning to the petals which are behind other petals which is good! Remember that the seed head and the flower as a whole needs shadow toning on the side furthest from your light source to…[Read more]

Welcome to the ArtFeed Maria! You are off to a good start. I am glad you realized that the color is off. I think of most poppy pods and stems to be a lighter green and many of them a blue/green. If a subject is very shiny then a white highlight helps to convey that. Less shiny subjects (like a poppy seed pod);are going to have a softer highlight…[Read more]

Hi Sara- what a wonderful tool and reference page! Once you find something that you feel is successful keep practicing it until you feel comfortable with it. If you are going to work strictly in watercolor than it is more important than if you were to add color pencil on top of the watercolor. The advantage to adding the color pencil is that you…[Read more]

Great job Sara! The colors are wonderful! As I mentioned on some of your previous posts, the pear would benefit by adding more dark and mid-range tones starting in the right edge to emphasize the form. It looks like you are working strictly in watercolor, which is fine. Wendy’s technique, which many of us follow, is applying color pencil on top o…[Read more]

Hi Sara! Your radish is beautifully rendered! It has a wonderful soft quality to it, which I really like and I am having a conflict with myself as to if I suggest you to take it further. For arguments sake, you could add more shadow toning along the right side to emphasize the form. I would also lift some color to make a more distinct highlight,…[Read more]

Nice! What great texture on the spiky center of the coneflower! I also like the richness of your colour choices.

This is nice! The greens are very rich. Is it a poppy pod? (I’m not great at IDing flowers/plants.)