Hi Carol- this is a really beautiful page! You have truly captured the hellebore’s various parts in your rendering and color choices! There are a couple of areas that I would look at again. The flower on the top right that is facing the right side of the page seems like it should have some darker toning added. A lot of the flower is facing away from the light source and those areas would be in shadow. The middle leaf on the right has a lot of highlight, which doesn’t seem accurate and I find distracting. When you look at the other beautiful leaves that are facing the light source they don’t have as much highlight. The left side of the leaf on the bottom left seems like it should have a highlight. I didn’t immediately see that this is a group of separate parts, which works well. Personally, I would like to see the stem of the small bud on the right continue on the bottom side of the leaf instead of stopping at the top of the leaf. It could just be a short section of stem. I don’t think it is necessary to bring the main stem thru the leaf. What do you think? Great job!!!
Hi Carol- this is a really beautiful page! You have truly captured the hellebore’s various parts in your rendering and color choices! There are a couple of areas that I would look at again. The flower on the top right that is facing the right side of the page seems like it should have some darker toning added. A lot of the flower is facing away from the light source and those areas would be in shadow. The middle leaf on the right has a lot of highlight, which doesn’t seem accurate and I find distracting. When you look at the other beautiful leaves that are facing the light source they don’t have as much highlight. The left side of the leaf on the bottom left seems like it should have a highlight. I didn’t immediately see that this is a group of separate parts, which works well. Personally, I would like to see the stem of the small bud on the right continue on the bottom side of the leaf instead of stopping at the top of the leaf. It could just be a short section of stem. I don’t think it is necessary to bring the main stem thru the leaf. What do you think? Great job!!!
Carol, this is beautiful! The leaves! All the views of the flowers!!!