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I really like your composition, the negative space, the various buds and open flowers and the color. It’s very elegant and appealing!

Gosh, what a beautiful picture!

I think you are very brave to draw a pine cone and did a great job. I love the shape! I’ve never seen a real Ponderosa pine cone. They don’t live in my area.

Thanx!!!!

Thanks so much for all the advice. I agree on all points. I will diversify the pod colors and add the sulfur. Composition is not my strong point I admit and I am having trouble imagining how to create a focal point with the plants but what if I added a second sulfur dangling from the flower that is partially opened? I wonder if that would work?

I love this study!

Thanks again Doug. I will take this advice for my next exersise.

Hi Sam,
I brought in dark sepia and the gang, will post modifications later this week. Thank you for your tips, I did initial sketches outside on tracing paper then played with composition. It’s growing under our apple tree so was fun to hang out together in the cool mornings.

Thank you Doug!

so pretty

Hi Rita, I love the way you have used color, especially in the green/yellow pear. That kind of variegated color is difficult. Also the face of the cut pear has beautiful subtile details. Nice observation! My suggestions would be that you add the cast shadows. I’m assuming you plan to since the seed have one. Be careful with the cut pear shadow.…[Read more]

Beautiful, Jane. Great composition and capture of the feeling of those petals of a sunflower reaching out for the sun. I can see your attention to each individual petal, and I can rally feel the textures of that centre.

I think their saturation is great, Leslie.

What Doug said, and What a great page! Would you consider giving me another cut section in the middle right in that blank space of the page?

Are the stems really as straight as in your drawing, I wonder? And do you want to let the variety of colour in these pods to enter your drawing – browns, ochres to yellows to greens? I think their colour range adds a great deal.

Yes please to the pink-edged sulfur flying in. Once the butterfly enters, you might take a look at the bottom of your page and see if you want to change the fact that both stems end at the same line. Compositionally, my eye goes to the centre of the blank page – so I don’t yet have a focal point in this composition. The stems are very straight and…[Read more]