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I’ve been wanting to work on a mushroom ever since the workshop that I couldn’t attend. This is an oyster mushroom/seta that is very common in Spain. The shadow on the right mushroom too heavy?

Beautiful Sheila! It looks great on the Kraft paper! I think the cast shadows are good!

Fantastic! Those gills are awesome

Shadow doesn’t look too heavy to me. Beautiful – so good on the Kraft paper. Shows us why they are called Oyster Mushrooms – really looking like oysters here. 🙂

Finished the cherries. I did make an executive (artistic!) decision and add more magenta and madder than is apparent in the real cherries, otherwise I feel the finished look would be so intensely dark….

The cherries look great Amanda! Your execution of the highlights really make the cherries shine and enhance the form.

Thanks Doug!

Looking good Sinead. Do you have a Cadmium Yellow Lemon polychromo pencil? I can’t tell from your photo of your color bar of greens- it can be a good addition. Maybe the green got a little dark overall? The dark sepia and the red sphere look great to me.

Hi Pamela- the tomato looks really good! Looking at the photo, you could add more color saturation so your drawing is closer to the live subject. A reflected highlight should not be white and I would add some color to it to tone it down. I would also lighten the cast shadow a little.

Here’s the photo of the cherries I’m working on……

Hi Vern! I just saw your comment (had missed it for some reason until now), will take another look at the finished cherries and see what might need to be done.

Just wonderful! You are rocking composition! I love the spikey leaflets with the round fruit. And your stem and leaflets have that slight fuzzy look of the plant.

It is a really nice composition Sheila! There are a couple of areas on the tomatoes that I would add some more darker toning both for form and to delineate where some of the tomatoes meet. A couple of them blend into each other. Great job!