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Gorgeous Katy! It looks like I could pick the crabapples right off the page! I particularly love the leaf on the bottom right! The loose composition works so well too!

Thanks Doug! It’s supposed to look casually composed…but not really. These are from a tree in my backyard that I might need to remove. So a bit of a eulogy. Ode to crabapple.

love how this turned out. The shadows are so much better making the apples pop but not trying to compete!

Ooh Katy this is awesome. It is SO full of life. I adore it. Well done.

Beautiful Ingrid! The color selection is very good. I think you could saturate the color more. The tomato on the bottom is the most successful. It is more saturated and also looks shinier, which I expect from these tomatoes. That bottom tomato’s highlight is whiter than the others and that helps convey a shiny surface. I think the middle tomato o…[Read more]

Thank you so much for this very helpful feedback. Love this couse and enjoy learning 😊

Hi Ingrid, I agree with Doug. Your toning is lovely, very sensitive. You just need to push the darks. You are half way there. Looks to me you have only made it to the 6 on the value scale. But be careful where you put those darks, don’t overwhelm the tomatoes. Think of the light source. Where is it coming from. What part of the plant would get the…[Read more]

Thank you Katy for your helpful feedback! Just did the lesson about overlapping objects… still much to learn, so interesting and lot’s of joy.

Nice job Linda! The texture reads well. I would make the highlight a little smaller. I would also saturate the color more. There are many areas that look like they have a milky glaze on them.

This is after Wendy have her suggestions on bringing out the flowers from the background and giving depth and demension to the vase. Thank you Wendy a world of different!

You’ve created so much movement and drama on the page. 🙂

Thank you!

This was before Wendy have her suggestions on improving the painting

Here is my Mushroom on Kraft Paper that I did to create the video for next week’s class on Drawing Mushrooms on Kraft paper. I really enjoyed doing this, starting with the foraging walk to collect the mushrooms, the drawing of the page, the attempt to identify the mushrooms, and adding the text!