This is a value drawing close up of a hen and chick plant.  I choose this plant to be my subject because I really wanted to focus on the layering of the leaves and also the  fact that each of the leaves were slightly curled inward.   I do believe that I accomplished the illusion of layering (which gives this drawing depth) but, not so much on the leaves being curled.

     Inthis sketch I also wanted to try and see if stokes of lines on the same plane going in opposite directions according to the subjects shape, would give each leave a sense of movement.

This still life portrait is of a young woman.  I am not quite sure who exactly the woman in the drawing is because I drew her facial features and characteristics based of Mrs. Heideman’s self portrait tutorial.

The portrait tutorial was so very much so helpful to me.  Before going through all fourteen pages, I thought I had some sort of idea how to draw a face but oh boy was I wrong.  I now realize that my eyes would always be too high up the forehead of my person sketch and the nose was ok, but the mouth and ears were terribly disproportional. Actually, My figure drawings never seemed to have any ears now that I think about it. Oops….. Oh well.  I still am not too sure how to properly shade the face (that is why the woman in the portrait looks kinds skinny around the cheek bones and her face still looks flat instead of plump and three-dimensional).  

I believe that the shading given to the subject’s hair really gives is depth and a sense of the hairs on her head blowing in the wind so to speak, and also a sense of layers. The bright white lines are lighter hairs on top of the darker more thick lines which lie under layers of other hairs.

This is a water color painting of an apple staggered behind  a small, miniature pumpkin.  This strategic placement of the two objects was done to not only get the eye to move more in interest,  but to also give this piece a sense of depth and perspective.