Draw Botanical LLC | Glenn Kotnik | Activity https://drawbotanical.com/members/elapid/activity/ Activity feed for Glenn Kotnik. Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:09:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=11.5.2 en-US 30 hourly 2 6dc713ea872960e5719ab2fecbca8fea Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41748/#acomment-41882 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:38:25 -0400 Excellent use of perspective, I need to learn how to do this. You should write a textbook, or have you already?

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]]> 6dc713ea872960e5719ab2fecbca8fea Glenn Kotnik commented on Hélène Chiasson's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41881/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:38:25 -0400 Excellent use of perspective, I need to learn how to do this. You should write a textbook, or have you already?

]]> 0 fa6fe9a470576a347f5dcbdb207195c1 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41878/#acomment-41880 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:33:38 -0400 Colorful acorns along the trail

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]]> fa6fe9a470576a347f5dcbdb207195c1 Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41879/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:33:38 -0400 Colorful acorns along the trail

]]> 0 aa171fa003b329d9c583f197bb02cb79 Glenn Kotnik added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41878/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:32:59 -0400 ]]> 1 4a7a70fe51f615c987ce3e765bc2e207 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41798/#acomment-41860 Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:26:59 -0400

I think I goofed it up when I cropped it to upload it. I’ll upload the version I had originally intended.

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]]> 4a7a70fe51f615c987ce3e765bc2e207 Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41859/ Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:26:59 -0400

I think I goofed it up when I cropped it to upload it. I’ll upload the version I had originally intended.

]]> 0 1be4148969cdc09b53b6c7aa83afbd04 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41816/#acomment-41820 Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:07:13 -0400 Beautiful drawing, Pam! This is one of my favorite ferns and grows all over in my woodland, sometimes it hangs out with Joe Pye and the meadow plants, sometimes it chills out in the cool shady hollow. The sterile fronds turn yellow and disappear as the first cold weather hits but the fertile fronds are poking up all over year round. Ostrich fern…[Read more]

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]]> 6cd196c5d3d9fd107aaa8e463da83f9c Glenn Kotnik commented on Pam's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41819/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:07:13 -0400 Beautiful drawing, Pam! This is one of my favorite ferns and grows all over in my woodland, sometimes it hangs out with Joe Pye and the meadow plants, sometimes it chills out in the cool shady hollow. The sterile fronds turn yellow and disappear as the first cold weather hits but the fertile fronds are poking up all over year round. Ostrich fern…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fc9f73980951d305570f45243e1ff44 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41798/#acomment-41800 Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:29:38 -0400 Summer in my woods. Rose hips, Rosa multiflora.

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]]> 3fc9f73980951d305570f45243e1ff44 Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41799/ Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:29:38 -0400 Summer in my woods. Rose hips, Rosa multiflora.

]]> 0 000e2ecc63c15ad31816527fbad68085 Glenn Kotnik added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41798/ Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:28:17 -0400 ]]> 3 eb6e01272149b8270f1bbf948b36fea9 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41638/#acomment-41664 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:27:17 -0400 @doug-milne Good idea, Doug. I’m not sure if there are any fresh specimens in the woods this time of year and my original specimen has long wilted so I may need to work from a photo. The challenge for me is how to keep all those flowers in the raceme from becoming just a tangle.

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]]> 9ffbcb7c882470e830d43c5d3aa7e35c Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41663/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:27:17 -0400 @doug-milne
Good idea, Doug. I’m not sure if there are any fresh specimens in the woods this time of year and my original specimen has long wilted so I may need to work from a photo. The challenge for me is how to keep all those flowers in the raceme from becoming just a tangle.

]]> 0 0e4cad4b41ff20301fae7d038e1e7c06 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41613/#acomment-41645 Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:53:28 -0400 Quite masterful! Visually beautiful while also being scientifically accurate.

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]]> 6461127a69b87652c44ec7bb7abc0a3b Glenn Kotnik commented on Pam's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41644/ Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:53:28 -0400 Quite masterful!
Visually beautiful while also being scientifically accurate.

]]> 0 93c3903f39bab570691e28f5c6a5d5cc Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41638/#acomment-41640 Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:16:42 -0400 This is the flower of the common woodland orchid Tipularia discolor. Everyone has seen the single leaf of this orchid in spring on the forest floor but many may not recognize the flower because it doesn’t appear until late summer and is so tiny. By the time the raceme of flowers appear the leaf has vanished. This drawing is a 20x enlargement of a…[Read more]

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]]> bf29ccb717080390e1e19692c63b6b7a Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41639/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:16:42 -0400 This is the flower of the common woodland orchid Tipularia discolor. Everyone has seen the single leaf of this orchid in spring on the forest floor but many may not recognize the flower because it doesn’t appear until late summer and is so tiny. By the time the raceme of flowers appear the leaf has vanished. This drawing is a 20x enlargement of a…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f17292abf24720c4dd297a749e57216 Glenn Kotnik added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41638/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:50:35 -0400 ]]> 3 5ba19c2984381385219d5a59f0065954 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41469/#acomment-41606 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:12:10 -0400 Do you live in Japan Machi? I have seen some wonderful species of Arisaema from Japan which would make great subjects for drawing. There is a company here in America that sells plants of Arisaema sikokianum which they propagate by tissue culture so they don’t need to take plants from the wild. I had a couple growing in my garden but they have a…[Read more]

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]]> 37c139caf23641f7277e27d4acd704da Glenn Kotnik commented on Machi's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41605/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:12:10 -0400 Do you live in Japan Machi? I have seen some wonderful species of Arisaema from Japan which would make great subjects for drawing. There is a company here in America that sells plants of Arisaema sikokianum which they propagate by tissue culture so they don’t need to take plants from the wild. I had a couple growing in my garden but they have a…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9ae58445047c0a953bd6dba1121bd4a Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41581/#acomment-41604 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:00:02 -0400 Very beautiful job! I love the composition,. The color and toning are exquisite! I wish I could do work like this.

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]]> 609e659e3488f7df407a39b924979cc3 Glenn Kotnik commented on Rita Haft's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41603/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:00:02 -0400 Very beautiful job!
I love the composition,. The color and toning are exquisite! I wish I could do work like this.

]]> 0 2e1e417c76b30d9d1987250728927bc3 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41352/#acomment-41418 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:26:22 -0400 @doug-milne. You’re right, Doug, I haven’t really figured out how to draw these with good form. I’ve done a lot of experimenting but in the end they come out flat looking. Is my paper too dark? In the forest understory they are difficult to see because they don’t have much contrast. Some people call them ghost pipes, and they really are like tr…[Read more]

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]]> 4b8e6991fa872a2d638557c05918c6d6 Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41417/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:26:22 -0400 @doug-milne. You’re right, Doug, I haven’t really figured out how to draw these with good form. I’ve done a lot of experimenting but in the end they come out flat looking. Is my paper too dark? In the forest understory they are difficult to see because they don’t have much contrast. Some people call them ghost pipes, and they really are like tr…[Read more]

]]> 0 1cd12b5d3cc3659d50be7b104f0b0629 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41409/#acomment-41416 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:12:19 -0400 The gradient of color and tone from bottom to top is somehow a photographic artifact of the lighting I used for this cell phone photo. I lit my drawing with two LED desk lamps. I can’t explain what happened but I like it anyway b

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]]> 1cd12b5d3cc3659d50be7b104f0b0629 Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41415/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:12:19 -0400 The gradient of color and tone from bottom to top is somehow a photographic artifact of the lighting I used for this cell phone photo. I lit my drawing with two LED desk lamps. I can’t explain what happened but I like it anyway b

]]> 0 ba3fa949d9375f84aca2f534de4bb3b8 Glenn Kotnik added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41409/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:39:24 -0400 ]]> 2 c25b40ac2dc78a22b54f53e6bd51c108 Glenn Kotnik added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41407/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 02:33:08 -0400 ]]> 1 36ee0ff943ba53721404f332b13c0187 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41339/#acomment-41358 Sat, 08 Jul 2023 15:28:35 -0400 Beautiful job! You are much more skilled than I am so I’m not the one to advise you but I can’t help but give you my ideas. I think that traditionally the light toned stamens would be on a darker background since they are in front. . Looking at the flower photo however you could ignore tradition and have the background lighter in tone than the sta…[Read more]

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]]> 4ece70e581b9b9fc05848eda21e9c92c Glenn Kotnik commented on Pat Schiebold's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41357/ Sat, 08 Jul 2023 15:28:35 -0400 Beautiful job! You are much more skilled than I am so I’m not the one to advise you but I can’t help but give you my ideas. I think that traditionally the light toned stamens would be on a darker background since they are in front. . Looking at the flower photo however you could ignore tradition and have the background lighter in tone than the sta…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad993664705d5239f2604528825c6f2f Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41353/#acomment-41356 Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:51:59 -0400 Really excellent mushroom drawing! It’s always difficult to find a viewpoint where you can see the cap, gills and stem all at once.

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]]> daf91f7b15d6465813ea1ec22abd8bd1 Glenn Kotnik commented on Maureen Doram's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41355/ Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:51:59 -0400 Really excellent mushroom drawing!
It’s always difficult to find a viewpoint where you can see the cap, gills and stem all at once.

]]> 0 3fac96d26b5cbb0411ab1a8552cf4a00 Glenn Kotnik added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41352/ Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:05:22 -0400 ]]> 2 4d6acdf02835245ecad9988257df0b2b Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41246/#acomment-41302 Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:47:09 -0400 Thank you both. I think that Squawroot must be the most unglamorous flowering plant in our eastern hardwood forests. It seems that most people who see it for the first time don’t even realize that it is a wildflower and mistake it for some sort of mutant toadstool. But it is a true angiosperm, but one lacking chlorophyll, there is no green color a…[Read more]

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]]> 674e1830f8c771a3a1354f85dd47fd5b Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41301/ Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:47:09 -0400 Thank you both.
I think that Squawroot must be the most unglamorous flowering plant in our eastern hardwood forests. It seems that most people who see it for the first time don’t even realize that it is a wildflower and mistake it for some sort of mutant toadstool. But it is a true angiosperm, but one lacking chlorophyll, there is no green c…[Read more]

]]> 0 43c14796df884232b7fbbaf2605a52ab Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41246/#acomment-41248 Mon, 26 Jun 2023 02:12:45 -0400 Squawroot, Conopholis americana

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]]> 66cc3057c5a612136e8e0682e2d592a3 Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41247/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 02:12:45 -0400 Squawroot, Conopholis americana

]]> 0 369621c643b5ff076c4b241ca4db9084 Glenn Kotnik added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41246/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 02:05:52 -0400 ]]> 4 23df34d517cebf11c02d3a01095884c8 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41107/#acomment-41133 Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:01:54 -0400 A species in the genus Hoya?

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]]> 23df34d517cebf11c02d3a01095884c8 Glenn Kotnik commented on Hélène Chiasson's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41132/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:01:54 -0400 A species in the genus Hoya?

]]> 0 9fe9a890e2f4c7331652b805a5edbadd Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41061/#acomment-41063 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 01:23:38 -0400 Spring in my woods:Cypripedium parviflorum. Yellow Lady’s Slipper Orchid.

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]]> 1606d3093da72ded930729ef8d6c9562 Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41062/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 01:23:38 -0400 Spring in my woods:Cypripedium parviflorum.
Yellow Lady’s Slipper Orchid.

]]> 0 04bd665f3cb4243996038ec34b939ed2 Glenn Kotnik added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41061/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 01:19:17 -0400 ]]> 2 3e5c2c5ecf4e73e82fa8f52251da7c2c Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41039/#acomment-41044 Mon, 29 May 2023 18:39:57 -0400 I wonder if Kraft paper was a poor choice for this subject. Would it have been better on white paper?

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]]> 332d7a095f9a05eddfb46e10df135ca0 Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41043/ Mon, 29 May 2023 18:39:57 -0400 I wonder if Kraft paper was a poor choice for this subject. Would it have been better on white paper?

]]> 0 cd6afacd7d5bf218dbb4bdaa9b8b7341 Glenn Kotnik added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/41039/ Mon, 29 May 2023 01:39:22 -0400 ]]> 3 92e3ebe3cfe5dfea4a3dd6980743e0a4 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/40532/#acomment-40602 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:49:31 -0400 @pgthompson I did several dozen practice drawings of the stem with the tricky trifurcation. But when I got to the flower I just wanted to be finished. So I short changed the flower. I’d like to do the whole drawing over again but now Trillium grandiflorum are open. I think they would look best on craft paper. I look forward to seeing your d…[Read more]

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]]> 50f8c5dbf860f536e0565a4aa5b86761 Glenn Kotnik commented on Glenn Kotnik's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/40601/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:49:30 -0400 @pgthompson
I did several dozen practice drawings of the stem with the tricky trifurcation. But when I got to the flower I just wanted to be finished. So I short changed the flower. I’d like to do the whole drawing over again but now Trillium grandiflorum are open. I think they would look best on craft paper. I look forward to seeing your d…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7371a767020f0a81ba2cdf786320591 Glenn Kotnik posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/40552/#acomment-40554 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:28:28 -0400 I love ‘em. Delicious!

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