So beautiful! You really captured the feel of this flower with all the angles and various degrees of maturity. I particularly like the veining in the petals and the colorful way you have toned the greens. Plus good tonal range! Really nice!
Thanks Katy for your input. I have to admit this flower seemed like it should have been easier than it was. Part of the problem was it changed all the time!! And now that the flower has completely opened I feel compelled to draw that view.
We’ll be so lucky if we get the bonus of seeing another view. 🙂 This is a beautiful drawing. It’s so hard to achieve saturated reds and a great range of values in reds. Beautifully done, and so nice that it offered you flowers in so many stages. Today in the webinar we thought you could still add dark sepia in a few key places to darken and create more depth. Like in the lower right flower in the centre.
Hi Sam, Yes I can see on the scan that it is not defined enough. Very helpful. Thanks. It’s really true that reds are hard. The other thing is the tight buds, at least on this variety, had more blue in them. I had to erase some areas and redo them but that’s the process, right? I’m channeling Georgia O’Keefe on the full frontal view!!
So beautiful! You really captured the feel of this flower with all the angles and various degrees of maturity. I particularly like the veining in the petals and the colorful way you have toned the greens. Plus good tonal range! Really nice!
Thanks Katy for your input. I have to admit this flower seemed like it should have been easier than it was. Part of the problem was it changed all the time!! And now that the flower has completely opened I feel compelled to draw that view.
We’ll be so lucky if we get the bonus of seeing another view. 🙂 This is a beautiful drawing. It’s so hard to achieve saturated reds and a great range of values in reds. Beautifully done, and so nice that it offered you flowers in so many stages. Today in the webinar we thought you could still add dark sepia in a few key places to darken and create more depth. Like in the lower right flower in the centre.
Hi Sam, Yes I can see on the scan that it is not defined enough. Very helpful. Thanks. It’s really true that reds are hard. The other thing is the tight buds, at least on this variety, had more blue in them. I had to erase some areas and redo them but that’s the process, right? I’m channeling Georgia O’Keefe on the full frontal view!!
Beautiful!