Draw Botanical LLC | Peta McDonald | Activity https://drawbotanical.com/members/petapumpkineater/activity/ Activity feed for Peta McDonald. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:09:42 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=11.5.2 en-US 30 hourly 2 c63e1e50e162cc07eddc0274fb39dd9e Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37291/#acomment-37314 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:23:44 -0400 @pgthompson thank you Pam. It’s graphite. 2B

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]]> 1893da95c8cf5f5c624df31eb6ab493e Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37313/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:23:43 -0400 @pgthompson thank you Pam. It’s graphite. 2B

]]> 0 d9284bc85b726948fb8600989d899e7c Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37296/#acomment-37309 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:55:27 -0400 @maureenclare oooooh! Exciting! Are you going to submit something?

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]]> d9284bc85b726948fb8600989d899e7c Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37308/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:55:27 -0400 @maureenclare oooooh! Exciting! Are you going to submit something?

]]> 0 705c5bdcdb20cc12449f5cd3bd34ee63 Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37264/#acomment-37300 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:54:29 -0400 @pgthompson Thanks so much Pam, such a cute little orchid! You guys would love the plants in Australia. 🙂 If you ever come I’ll have to take time off work and join in the workshops. 🙂 I’m not sure if it was an ovary under the wings but I think so… they are a protected plant so I wasn’t allowed to pick them or pull them apart or anything……[Read more]

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]]> baf674ed4fe2d7fdd82b7edb5b8af5e1 Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37299/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:54:29 -0400 @pgthompson Thanks so much Pam, such a cute little orchid! You guys would love the plants in Australia. 🙂 If you ever come I’ll have to take time off work and join in the workshops. 🙂

I’m not sure if it was an ovary under the wings but I think so… they are a protected plant so I wasn’t allowed to pick them or pull them apart or anything……[Read more]

]]> 0 c7c37d92085aaf1ac629ec82c3667db6 Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37296/#acomment-37298 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:50:10 -0400 @maureenclare of course I thought of you. 🙂 My first ‘real’ attempt at lichen. As you can see, I chickened out and only did a tiny piece. (By the way, I was showing my mum and dad your instagram page when they were over yesterday, my mum absolutely adores your work too). 🙂

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]]> e4935cef7eb500e94255dac61446f004 Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37297/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:50:09 -0400 @maureenclare of course I thought of you. 🙂 My first ‘real’ attempt at lichen. As you can see, I chickened out and only did a tiny piece. (By the way, I was showing my mum and dad your instagram page when they were over yesterday, my mum absolutely adores your work too). 🙂

]]> 0 555385197f03d10ffb689e7bdda3f8de Peta McDonald added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37296/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:46:07 -0400 ]]> 6 468c9d73c5094024fc1f2ef82ae7ba5d Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37291/#acomment-37295 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:45:17 -0400 @doug-milne I’m sorry about the image not attaching… here it is again. I’ve been working on leaf drawing after Wendy’s tutorial video and have framed this for my husband. The contrast isn’t quite right… I always seem to have REALLY dark and REALLY light and it’s not quite natural, but I love this one anyway. 🙂 Feel free to give any improvement advice. 🙂

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]]> 0624f1f929e497176931f6cb1de2e19f Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37294/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:45:17 -0400 @doug-milne I’m sorry about the image not attaching… here it is again. I’ve been working on leaf drawing after Wendy’s tutorial video and have framed this for my husband. The contrast isn’t quite right… I always seem to have REALLY dark and REALLY light and it’s not quite natural, but I love this one anyway. 🙂 Feel free to give any improvement advice. 🙂

]]> 0 2a4870212a6f5953c9dc2b74467fabcd Peta McDonald added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37291/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:41:28 -0400 ]]> 4 6c87cdfa9d8525cdcd29bccb583e56dd Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37264/#acomment-37266 Sun, 05 Jun 2022 06:24:17 -0400 This is a ‘Flying duck orchid’. I found them with my brother for the first time this year. If you don’t believe the incredible shape and colour, you’ve got to Google it, we’ve got some weird things in Australia. 🙂

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]]> d532a9aba38db74f3960537a82477f94 Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37265/ Sun, 05 Jun 2022 06:24:17 -0400 This is a ‘Flying duck orchid’. I found them with my brother for the first time this year. If you don’t believe the incredible shape and colour, you’ve got to Google it, we’ve got some weird things in Australia. 🙂

]]> 0 4b9ac1f4ba65247320444345e68dd053 Peta McDonald added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37264/ Sun, 05 Jun 2022 06:22:40 -0400 ]]> 3 c7dddf7449e31dda5f9bd780bfb62e8a Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37189/#acomment-37250 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:52:55 -0400 Oh my word!!! I can’t even imagine how much time it took to do each of those little kernals! Might have to study this picture for a while. It’s incredible!

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]]> da0672cb622acd31b2fdf4e5a90b1b11 Peta McDonald commented on Rita Haft's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37249/ Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:52:55 -0400 Oh my word!!! I can’t even imagine how much time it took to do each of those little kernals! Might have to study this picture for a while. It’s incredible!

]]> 0 d4128d54d5c23873482fbd90f445849b Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37226/ Sat, 28 May 2022 23:15:26 -0400

@maureenclare Oh wow… I just looked her up. You are exactly right that I love those a lot. Do you think she’s watercolour + pencil? It can be really overwhelming seeing the phenomenal work of botanical artists. It’s so hard to know where to begin! Commonly facing choice paralysis here. This particular fungus is really rounded and bright yellow…

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]]> 0 8ffc32d2c89caeab165864208fe8a94f Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37197/#acomment-37225 Sat, 28 May 2022 23:15:25 -0400
@maureenclare Oh wow… I just looked her up. You are exactly right that I love those a lot. Do you think she’s watercolour + pencil? It can be really overwhelming seeing the phenomenal work of botanical artists. It’s so hard to know where to begin! Commonly facing choice paralysis here. This particular fungus is really rounded and bright yellow…

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]]> 62aa395e8782bd561b0ef39b65c435d2 Peta McDonald added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37197/ Wed, 25 May 2022 07:45:59 -0400 ]]> 5 8c5e065674afb5b5e6e9d04a25e1f389 Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37006/#acomment-37071 Tue, 17 May 2022 11:36:37 -0400 @pgthompson They are not all iridescent like this one, but many of them are super beautiful, I’ll have to post them as I complete them in the future. (I actually enrolled in this course in the first place because I want to be able to draw slime moulds) :). You should see them when there are thousands of them all lined up like little soldiers on a…[Read more]

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]]> 14d01d62fcf066322d039ea73f359720 Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37070/ Tue, 17 May 2022 11:36:37 -0400 @pgthompson They are not all iridescent like this one, but many of them are super beautiful, I’ll have to post them as I complete them in the future. (I actually enrolled in this course in the first place because I want to be able to draw slime moulds) :).
You should see them when there are thousands of them all lined up like little soldiers on…[Read more]

]]> 0 9dc21986ddbecb1df591aa167bbfd26a Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37055/#acomment-37069 Tue, 17 May 2022 11:33:46 -0400 Love love love. You have so much talent Maureen! Hope you get it all finished in time. 26 hours to go 🙂

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]]> 9dc21986ddbecb1df591aa167bbfd26a Peta McDonald commented on Maureen Clare Murphy's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37068/ Tue, 17 May 2022 11:33:46 -0400 Love love love. You have so much talent Maureen! Hope you get it all finished in time. 26 hours to go 🙂

]]> 0 af1aab4710c684369c4ceff0021c3521 Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37055/#acomment-37067 Tue, 17 May 2022 11:31:16 -0400 Oh my goodness Maureen, this is soooo beautiful. I have just spent ages zooming in on your descriptions and looking at the detail in your drawings. I particularly like the five stamen in a row on the open corolla. The bit where they break away and you’ve done the shadow is so cool. Also, even though you thought you saw six lobes in the corolla,…[Read more]

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]]> 3da0f857a0e6aee95d30d80ba4c0e39d Peta McDonald commented on Maureen Clare Murphy's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37066/ Tue, 17 May 2022 11:31:16 -0400 Oh my goodness Maureen, this is soooo beautiful. I have just spent ages zooming in on your descriptions and looking at the detail in your drawings. I particularly like the five stamen in a row on the open corolla. The bit where they break away and you’ve done the shadow is so cool. Also, even though you thought you saw six lobes in the corolla,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2f3bd3bfea87b89520f68e3d759c93b Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37055/#acomment-37065 Tue, 17 May 2022 11:25:10 -0400 Wonderful! That looks great now, your black and white ‘whole flower’ images is lovely! And I love your handwriting. 🙂

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]]> 6a87078a18373612f7af47d4bb41ee2a Peta McDonald commented on Maureen Clare Murphy's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37064/ Tue, 17 May 2022 11:25:10 -0400 Wonderful! That looks great now, your black and white ‘whole flower’ images is lovely! And I love your handwriting. 🙂

]]> 0 9521c8b21ed67a591a69be0bda647e6c Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37006/#acomment-37034 Sun, 15 May 2022 06:57:20 -0400 @doug-milne By the way, this species is called Diachea leucopodia in case you ever want to look it up. 🙂

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]]> 9521c8b21ed67a591a69be0bda647e6c Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37033/ Sun, 15 May 2022 06:57:20 -0400 @doug-milne By the way, this species is called Diachea leucopodia in case you ever want to look it up. 🙂

]]> 0 0e5b638d043d886ceb006eefc34b24c9 Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37006/#acomment-37032 Sun, 15 May 2022 06:51:39 -0400 Hi @doug-milne, once you start finding slime moulds, you never look back. It’s become a bit of an obsession of mine. 🙂 I was hoping to capture the white, but didn’t do that very well. Any tips?

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]]> 082c7bc0b914c801047f17286d378c79 Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37031/ Sun, 15 May 2022 06:51:38 -0400 Hi @doug-milne, once you start finding slime moulds, you never look back. It’s become a bit of an obsession of mine. 🙂

I was hoping to capture the white, but didn’t do that very well. Any tips?

]]> 0 381fb3e844c378b2b487e461399f1dcc Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37006/#acomment-37014 Sat, 14 May 2022 20:41:08 -0400 Thank you @maureenclare! I think some of the sparkle in that photo is the LED light reflecting off the pencil, but the rough paper helps too because a bit of light shines through. Have you been working on anything this week?

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]]> 0614c684c3cb7aa2a32782c8cd8b3c4e Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37013/ Sat, 14 May 2022 20:41:07 -0400 Thank you @maureenclare! I think some of the sparkle in that photo is the LED light reflecting off the pencil, but the rough paper helps too because a bit of light shines through.

Have you been working on anything this week?

]]> 0 f407fb7e45543600c5966634011652d0 Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37006/#acomment-37008 Sat, 14 May 2022 10:52:39 -0400 For those who don’t know about slime moulds, these are some of the most adorable creatures on our planet. They were once classified as plants, then fungi and now in their own little group in the Protist kingdom. This little guy is only 2 mm tall, which is about normal for a slime mould, so I take the photos through my microscope. I found millions…[Read more]

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]]> a99adcdf1717f06d40feeb6b099a98a9 Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37007/ Sat, 14 May 2022 10:52:39 -0400 For those who don’t know about slime moulds, these are some of the most adorable creatures on our planet. They were once classified as plants, then fungi and now in their own little group in the Protist kingdom.

This little guy is only 2 mm tall, which is about normal for a slime mould, so I take the photos through my microscope. I found…[Read more]

]]> 0 77ee3d8465649bc3972aabdc0c6eca0e Peta McDonald added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37006/ Sat, 14 May 2022 10:49:07 -0400 ]]> 10 e09e18945998e002355a014445f68a3c Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37001/#acomment-37005 Fri, 13 May 2022 10:43:40 -0400 Hi Dolores, I love how you’ve done these three leaves differently from each other with increased layers of colour/toning. So great. 🙂 And those little furry things at the end are so cute! Are they nuts inside?

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]]> e09e18945998e002355a014445f68a3c Peta McDonald commented on Dolores Duran-Cefalu's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/37004/ Fri, 13 May 2022 10:43:40 -0400 Hi Dolores, I love how you’ve done these three leaves differently from each other with increased layers of colour/toning. So great. 🙂 And those little furry things at the end are so cute! Are they nuts inside?

]]> 0 a70a152a38957acc92736f1ba13981db Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36762/#acomment-36871 Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:55:06 -0400 Wow, live those segments lying on the page. Studying your drawing and trying to work out how you did it so perfectly!

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]]> a70a152a38957acc92736f1ba13981db Peta McDonald commented on Katy Lyness's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36870/ Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:55:06 -0400 Wow, live those segments lying on the page. Studying your drawing and trying to work out how you did it so perfectly!

]]> 0 ea398982a032a4de45eb77aed1b1d1fa Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36859/#acomment-36869 Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:47:03 -0400 Thank you so much @maureenclare! I was thinking of you when I posted it because it was my first try at lichen. Still a long way to go, but gotta start somewhere. You said the other day that you love study pages and I agree that they are great. There is no one element that I love here, but the overall effect is ace. Maybe I’ll just spend my life on…[Read more]

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]]> a421a3ae4870f5403cd934f6888b9deb Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36868/ Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:47:03 -0400 Thank you so much @maureenclare! I was thinking of you when I posted it because it was my first try at lichen. Still a long way to go, but gotta start somewhere. You said the other day that you love study pages and I agree that they are great. There is no one element that I love here, but the overall effect is ace.

Maybe I’ll just spend my…[Read more]

]]> 0 dfb482a83f2dc993b723e866ee39490c Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36832/#acomment-36863 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:57:02 -0400 Oh my goodness Harriet!! I have just been drinking in all the details of your plant/insect drawings. This is phenomenal! When you mentioned them in the zoom meeting I was really hoping to see them, so thank you for sharing them here. Absolutely beautiful. I will study them closely to see if I can pick up any tricks. 🙂

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]]> b6667872dc580c8e96a7dadc20ddc37e Peta McDonald commented on Harriet O’Donnell's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36862/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:57:02 -0400 Oh my goodness Harriet!! I have just been drinking in all the details of your plant/insect drawings. This is phenomenal!

When you mentioned them in the zoom meeting I was really hoping to see them, so thank you for sharing them here.

Absolutely beautiful. I will study them closely to see if I can pick up any tricks. 🙂

]]> 0 af18a457c31b09bc33f44361e7b08c0f Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36859/#acomment-36861 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:33:52 -0400 Let’s not talk too much about the light source… I was rotating my page around as paint dried. 🙂 Practising different techniques from Wendy’s videos.

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]]> 7dbd5e2347c6a793b389004cfddc41f5 Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36860/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:33:52 -0400 Let’s not talk too much about the light source… I was rotating my page around as paint dried. 🙂

Practising different techniques from Wendy’s videos.

]]> 0 26a56dadd40ac4086d5e3ddf700cbee3 Peta McDonald added a Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36859/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:32:16 -0400 ]]> 9 2b4f22a4899b02a667a4832fe1a43c32 Peta McDonald posted a new activity comment https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36595/#acomment-36692 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 09:54:14 -0400 @maureenclare Plant gall! Very interesting subject choice. I’m actually particularly into these creatures called slime moulds which were traditionally included in botany, but are actually amoeba :). If you google slime moulds you’ll probably dump plants forever and spend the rest of your life trying to draw them. 🙂 I like your “weird thing…[Read more]

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]]> 2b4f22a4899b02a667a4832fe1a43c32 Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo https://drawbotanical.com/activity/p/36691/ Sat, 23 Apr 2022 09:54:14 -0400 @maureenclare Plant gall! Very interesting subject choice. I’m actually particularly into these creatures called slime moulds which were traditionally included in botany, but are actually amoeba :). If you google slime moulds you’ll probably dump plants forever and spend the rest of your life trying to draw them. 🙂 I like your “weird thing…[Read more]

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