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I am enjoying documenting spring as it emerges in my garden. I am working on stonehenge kraft paper, and will be creating a new lesson soon on kraft paper for everyone to try!

Thought you might all enjoy seeing this rare Palm that I have been working on for a while now, but hopefully it is finished!

Hi Ayse- beautiful composition! Some of the leaves get lost because the color of the leaf behind is too similar to the one on top. Leaves often have a light and dark side especially along the center vein, which would also help give some variation to the leaves. Nice job!

Hi Ayse- love the detail views! I think the leaves would benefit from some toning where they cross each other and also where the stems cross over the leaves. Beautiful!

Hi Douglass- Wendy recently posted a similar view of a daffodil which might give you some ideas for those last details.

Hi Rita- I left a comment on your photo post about working on the leaves. After looking at the photo what I would like to see on your flower are some of those dark areas where some sections of the petals are recessed and overlap. In the photo I can also see each distinct petal and I am missing that on your drawing. A red or pink verithin pencil…[Read more]

Hi Rita- thanks for sending the photo! Examining the photo you can get a lot of ideas on how to make your ice plant look more realistic. The first thing I noticed was that the leaves are darker at the base and get lighter as you look up to the top of the leaves. This condition exists and is very noticeable because the photo was taken outside.…[Read more]

This beautiful Pam! It looks really nice on the tan paper! I feel like I would like to see some dark toning where the yellow center meets the white petals. I would expect to see toning from the middle of the bottom around on the right toward the top in the area where the yellow meets the white.

Coltsfoot seed head on Strathmore 400 toned tan paper. My attempt at this seed head!! Wasn’t quite sure how to tackle such a subject but here we go.

Beautiful!!

This is not the exact flower I used, but hopefully gives the idea- I actually wanted to do a water drop but I don’t really know how yet- I am noticing in posting this that there is a nice reflective highlight along the base and I made mine uniformly dark- although this is outside and I had done mine inside so there was less overhead light

I thought I would add an open floser coming out from behind in the lower left corner- perhaps a yellow- we have purple, pink and yellow all around- I know what you mean about the cactus leaves- Im going to post a picture so you can see- they almost look plastic without much variation at all- I must admit I exaggerated the difference between the…[Read more]

Hi Rita- you are back to your “signature” color. I would take another look at the toning of the stem and leaves. Especially on the leaves and the very bottom of the stem, there are only light and dark tones without any mid-range tones. Conversely the majority part of the stem is missing dark and mid-range tones. I would expect to see the base of…[Read more]

Hi Elizabeth- beautiful! It does look better with fewer water drops and I really like how you changed where the stems cross. I like these two hellebores together and they compliment each other. I look forward to seeing more!