The Practice of Botanical Drawing Discussion Board

This is sooooo interesting! And exotic to me! Like how those seeds make there way all around the drawing ✍️

Loving these very fashionable pinstripes! Looking very lovely!

Loving all the parts!

I worked on the leaves and stem, added a sliced open seed pod and darkened the seed pod on the right using a more mature seed pod. Now I’ve lost my previous pod that had more green! 🙁

I love the bunch, the seeds, and the sliced open grape halves! I wonder if saturated color on a few grapes and a tiny bit of variation of the size of the highlights on a few grapes might pop a few out. Not sure. I love the overlaps, too.

The variety of colors is so compelling! Beautiful!

This is another try at an orchid composition. This time I’m just kind of winging it. My loose plan is to keep adding to it as the flower opens, and have the fully open bloom around where the green tape is, and then add a few to the right of that as the flower fades.

Thank you for the input! I will rework the highlights a bit as you suggested. A question about the cast shadow,. You said to put the cast shadow right to the edge of the form so there isn’t a white space between the form and the cast shadow. Is this true for the branches that are not directly on the ground as well?

Sheila, that lemon is wonderful. I feel like I could pick it up right off the paper. Beautiful!

I love the grape that you cut in half. Really nice work!

I need to buy a new plant specimen bce the pup unplanted this one and chewed it up! Need to finish the flower center and leaves, maybe add something else???Vern??

A few bits on the stems to finish off. Anything else anyone??

I need to wait until summer again to do the leaf behind the cluster!

The common name in English is Birthwort and in Spanish it’s candiles. These vines are growing in the mountains behind us. I’m wondering about the leaves, especially on the left. Also, I want to put in a dissection of the flower on the bottom left.

So summery! Very nice Machi!

There’s just something about yellow and citrus in February! Eye vitamins! Nicely done Sheila! I always like your segments

Vern, I rounded it out and reduced the shadow. Also, brightened it up. Orange trees blooming soon here!