Beautiful Dora! Great composition and colors! Maybe it is the quality of the photo, but some areas of leaves don’t have the same saturation as other leaves. You are getting to practice a lot of leaves and doing a great job on them!
22 July 2020
I love the fullness of this drawing, Dora. So many leaves!! It’s beautiful and detailed and delicate. Perhaps a magnification of one flower in the top right to balance out this composition? 🙂
Theodora, this is beautiful: composition, colors and so many leaves! Can you tell me what green pencils you’re using? I’m not getting anywhere near the range of green you’re getting. Thanks, Sheila
Thanks Sheila. This is not something I could have attempted a year ago without Wendy’s on line course on leaves, branches and overlaps. The colours are from Wendys kit. Earth green yellowish, green olive, chrome oxide green, as well as cadmium yellow lemon and dark sepia for toning. I aso ended up using watercolour-a mix of art spectrum sap green which is made in Australia. We find it useful for gum leaves. I might have darkened it with a tiny dot of Winsor and Newton parylene green. I think you could use faber castel permanent green olive watercolour pencil as I often use that on leaves. I took on Doug’s advise and went back and saturated the leaves more as you might notice on the second drawing I uploaded. Hope this helps and looking forward to seeing your work.
Beautiful Dora! Great composition and colors! Maybe it is the quality of the photo, but some areas of leaves don’t have the same saturation as other leaves. You are getting to practice a lot of leaves and doing a great job on them!
I love the fullness of this drawing, Dora. So many leaves!! It’s beautiful and detailed and delicate. Perhaps a magnification of one flower in the top right to balance out this composition? 🙂
Attempted to saturate the leaves Doug. Hope I haven’t lost the light trying.
Theodora, this is beautiful: composition, colors and so many leaves! Can you tell me what green pencils you’re using? I’m not getting anywhere near the range of green you’re getting. Thanks, Sheila
Thanks Sheila. This is not something I could have attempted a year ago without Wendy’s on line course on leaves, branches and overlaps. The colours are from Wendys kit. Earth green yellowish, green olive, chrome oxide green, as well as cadmium yellow lemon and dark sepia for toning. I aso ended up using watercolour-a mix of art spectrum sap green which is made in Australia. We find it useful for gum leaves. I might have darkened it with a tiny dot of Winsor and Newton parylene green. I think you could use faber castel permanent green olive watercolour pencil as I often use that on leaves. I took on Doug’s advise and went back and saturated the leaves more as you might notice on the second drawing I uploaded. Hope this helps and looking forward to seeing your work.