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I LOVE this Machi! All of those thin little stamen are just wonderful. Your leaves have a lovely lyrical quality, and they have a lot of form and dimension to them. You nailed the way that branch bends and curves as it grows each year, and I really like the variety of color that you are getting along that branch.

It’s absolutely wonderful just as it is, but if I really dig, I do have a couple of minor suggestions. I would like to see you grab a really really sharp dark colored pencil and get into a few places among the stamen to really make those flowers pop. I’m also wondering about the cut-open fruit. Is the inside really that solid white? Or, did the scanner/camera blow out the color? If not, I would like to see, just a little more color variation in that fruit. Even on a very white fruit, there is usually a bit of color near the edges that sort of bleed into the flesh of the fruit. Does that make sense? But, Machi, this is really gorgeous just as it is. Wonderul!