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Wow! This is incredible – the surface texture is excellent and the leaves look so real.

Yeah, unfortunately, those Gingko nuts rot up pretty rank.

Ooh, beautiful, I love the texture of that green/purple fig skin – great colour work there, and the inside of the fig. I’m getting stuck on the left side of the dark fig, ie, even if your fruit is really shaped like that, that straight line of that side is an angle that’s so sharp that my eye gets stuck there.

Yes – this starts to tell me a longer story about this tree. Looks like a beautiful picture book. Would be quite a scratch and sniff page, eh?

I like your writing, Nancy. Reminds me of hand lettering from California’s Arts/Crafts Movement’s borrowing from Art Nouveau.

Thanks!

Hi Rita, I really like this one. The curves are so lyrical. and I like the contrast of the lacey leaf to the solid tuber.

I’ve been inspired by Wendy to include more information in my drawings. To stretch myself compositionally.

I love the way the leaves feather around the peach.

Hi Nancy,
Again, Beautiful colors! You have a real feel for using colors in a way that is harmonious, interesting, and compelling. As far as your piece being a botanical illustration in terms of a realistic rendering of the subject, I feel you need to think more of the subject as a whole. I can see that you are rendering each petal with an…[Read more]

The fruit is smooth, but the variegated color is where I guess I turned it into lobes! Glad you thought it looks spherical! Thank you.

Yes, better. I have more a feel for the light cast on the leaf. I might add just a subtle shadow line on the mid rib shadow side.