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Wonderful Hayden! It has so much going for it! The color selection and saturation are great as are the details and toning! Bravo!

Ooooh. Hayden. This is outstanding! Sooooo realistic. I feel like I could pick them up and eat them.

This was an 80th birthday present for a friend whose Jewish family escaped Hungary (tulips), emigrated to Australia (golden wattle). He moved to NYC and started his architecture firm (rose for USA and NYS), and has lived in CT for 40 years. His life’s journey in flowers.

What a touching and beautiful present Hayden!

I am touched by your thoughtfulness in creating such a meaningful piece for your friend. I am also impressed by the rendering of the flowers~ beautiful!

What a beautiful and thoughtful gift. Love it.

Nice composition Hayden. Maybe it is the quality of the post, but these subjects look faded and in need of more color saturation. They could also use more of a tonal range to emphasize their form. They are almost there!

Beautiful, concise, simple illustrations! Wonderful architectural handwriting!

So much fun, Hayden.

You did a fantastic job working on the Kraft paper Hayden! Nice true colors that look wonderful on the brown background!

Hi Hayden- Wonderful job using the paper color to represent the shadowed areas! Bravo!

I’m loving your Kraft paper pieces. The stem on the inflorescence is a tad stick straight. It can look more natural if you draw it with a little movement. Stems tend to bend just a bit at each node.

Hi Hayden- this is a pleasing grouping and it is well done! I would tweak a couple of areas. It seems like the highlight on the tan pear on the left is caused by light coming from a different direction than the other two pears. That highlight should shift over more to the left. The lower section of highlight on the red pear is good, but the pointy…[Read more]

Really nice, Hayden. Those textures are all wonderful. I love the highlight on the grapefruit. – very natural looking. Well done.

Hi Maureen- the highlights in particular are wonderful! There is something about the position of the large leaf on the right that bothers me. Personally, I would add a piece of stem with a curl in it come out from the lower right edge of the leaf. I think that would help the composition.

@doug-milne Thanks for your ideas about the leaf, it really bothers me too and I like your possible solution so I will try it out.

This is gorgeous Maureen! I love how the flower buds just glow! With so much incredible work of yours to pick from this is one of my favorites!

@doug-milne thank you so much, our begonias are so inspiring every season. I overwinter the bulbs and am always delighted when they come into bloom.

Beautiful negative space in the composition. Well done!

These are drawings I’ve been doing, cutting out, arranging and then deciding to put in this accordion journal I had. An experiment!

I think I may add more elements to each page.

Gorgeous Sheila!

I love this! Such a sweet accordion journal. Really good idea.

Beautiful Mary! The leaves are wonderful! I would consider making some of the leaf overlaps darker. I would also expect the flowers to cast shadows. The flowers are amazing too and adding some dark behind them would really make them pop!

I love the fuzz!