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Great color selection and saturation Teresa! I don’t see a lot of detail in these caps especially compared to your other acorn page. Maybe these caps did not have much detail.

The mushrooms look great on the Kraft paper Teresa! You have really captured the textures! I feel like you could use a little more toning especially the areas under the caps and on the right side of the two outside subjects. Beautiful work!

Extraordinarily beautiful, as is, for me.

Is this a photograph ! Wow

You could also go further with the oranges in the leaves. Not so much that you dull the green, but to add depth to the shadows

Much nicer! More unified. You could even go darker in the leaves, especially where they meet each other at the base. Just the darkest darks where they touch each other or cast a shadow.

Hi Teresa. So glad you like it!
I use mostly Prismacolors. I believe I used Canary Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Spanish Orange. I also used a Cadmium Yellow watercolor pencil wash. The one Wendy has in her list of materials. I think a key to getting brilliant colors is the under toning of white. I use Prismacolor white. It think it is a bit more opaque…[Read more]

Revised. Added orange and yellow to the green in the smaller leaf and made both leaves darker.

Thank you for comments–you are absolutely right about the perspective being off. I measured to a fair-thee-well, but perhaps I wasn’t careful enough about my movement. I did some toning on the lower edge and it is better but still not what I would like. I have eaten my model now but will try another this winter and see if I can’t get it right.

ok, thanks! I was afraid to do that, but I can do really light washes and layer so I don’t lose the highlights?

Ok! thanks, Vern. Will do.

thanks, Vern!

I just used a blank copy of an assignment – blank outlines of curled paper, then toned them. I’m not even sure if they’re right! just working it out…thanks vern

this is just beautiful…I love it as is