These are so cute! I love the little peak of the gills. You can really feel the waxy texture of the surface of the cap, and your highlights are lovely. I especially love that highlight along the cap’s edge – very successful. Nice shading under the capes, and I really like the detail on the stipe. And that little tuft of leaves on the bottom is exactly what it needed to ground it. Wonderful!
You know I love these, Peta! Are you familiar with Margaret Saylor’s work? She gave a delightful presentation on her mushroom field sketches at last year’s American Society of Botanical Artists conference. I think you might dig her work (no pun intended).
@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 and my drawings almost look like a ‘cartoon’, but it was actually this shape. I’ll try a more delicate on next to see if the detail can come out. I’m aiming for detail like your daffodil drawings (especially that dried leafy bit then hangs down… loved that so much). 🙂
And then there’s still lichen to try… how are you going with your drawing/painting?
P.S. are you on facebook? wondering if we could be facebook friends. 🙂
@petapumpkineater I think you did a fantastic job with these mushrooms! They look like they could be in a field guide. As for Margaret Saylor, I think she uses graphite pencil and watercolor. (She’s also a delightful personality as mushroom people tend to be!) I got some drawing in today of what I hope are budding maianthemum stellatum and some ramps on toned paper — I’ll upload new stuff to the feed soon! And I’d love to connect but I’m not active on FB. I am @maureenclaremurphy on Instagram and my email is maureenclare@gmail.com if you ever want to be in touch!
These are so cute! I love the little peak of the gills. You can really feel the waxy texture of the surface of the cap, and your highlights are lovely. I especially love that highlight along the cap’s edge – very successful. Nice shading under the capes, and I really like the detail on the stipe. And that little tuft of leaves on the bottom is exactly what it needed to ground it. Wonderful!
(capes — caps)
You know I love these, Peta! Are you familiar with Margaret Saylor’s work? She gave a delightful presentation on her mushroom field sketches at last year’s American Society of Botanical Artists conference. I think you might dig her work (no pun intended).
@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 and my drawings almost look like a ‘cartoon’, but it was actually this shape. I’ll try a more delicate on next to see if the detail can come out. I’m aiming for detail like your daffodil drawings (especially that dried leafy bit then hangs down… loved that so much). 🙂
And then there’s still lichen to try… how are you going with your drawing/painting?
P.S. are you on facebook? wondering if we could be facebook friends. 🙂
@petapumpkineater I think you did a fantastic job with these mushrooms! They look like they could be in a field guide. As for Margaret Saylor, I think she uses graphite pencil and watercolor. (She’s also a delightful personality as mushroom people tend to be!) I got some drawing in today of what I hope are budding maianthemum stellatum and some ramps on toned paper — I’ll upload new stuff to the feed soon! And I’d love to connect but I’m not active on FB. I am @maureenclaremurphy on Instagram and my email is maureenclare@gmail.com if you ever want to be in touch!