I wouldn't look for any weak point, because it's very nice looking art to me
Hidden garden
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Re: Hidden garden
It's beautifully drawn indeed!
I wouldn't look for any weak point, because it's very nice looking art to me
I wouldn't look for any weak point, because it's very nice looking art to me
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Oh, it’s lovely! Having just done mine, I know how deceptively difficult it is to depict all of those ridge lines in the shell properly because of the shifting perspective as the shell spirals. It took a lot of Blu-tak!!! You nailed it!
Some shells are flatter and some are more conical, so the light doesn’t hit them all the same way. Mine was more conical I think so I exaggerated the light on the right of each turn of the spiral, and shaded the left side more. Of course, I had to consider the shade down in the crevice between the spirals too. It took a lot of laying down graphite and then lifting with the Blu-tak.
Your shell has LOADS of texture and dimension! I wouldn’t change a thing.
Some shells are flatter and some are more conical, so the light doesn’t hit them all the same way. Mine was more conical I think so I exaggerated the light on the right of each turn of the spiral, and shaded the left side more. Of course, I had to consider the shade down in the crevice between the spirals too. It took a lot of laying down graphite and then lifting with the Blu-tak.
Your shell has LOADS of texture and dimension! I wouldn’t change a thing.
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Thank you PogArt and Laurene for your encouraging assements. I see things I would do differently now, but sometimes we just have to move on to the next project.
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AGREE
It's exactly what I'm doing
I'm never happy with my work, so the sooner I move on - the better!
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Untrained eye may see just the snail, but we all know how much attention to the detail it takes, and a time to make the snail look that good
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Lovely work Laurene. Snails are pretty to look at, if destructive in my garden.
We had some really rainy weather recently, I was out and when I got home just after dusk by cars' headlights shown on my agapanthus plants and OH. MY. GOODNESS! It was a flipping SNAIL PARTY on the leaves. There must have been about a hundred or more from big to little slime-ing about the long strappy leaves. Then my neighbor told me to bait them because agapanthus are know to harbor snakes because the looooooove the snails and I was giving them a banquet.
We had some really rainy weather recently, I was out and when I got home just after dusk by cars' headlights shown on my agapanthus plants and OH. MY. GOODNESS! It was a flipping SNAIL PARTY on the leaves. There must have been about a hundred or more from big to little slime-ing about the long strappy leaves. Then my neighbor told me to bait them because agapanthus are know to harbor snakes because the looooooove the snails and I was giving them a banquet.
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Oh wow, the stuff of nightmares!! Might make another great hidden garden drawing though!
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Seriously, there's not much to improve on, Mary. It's a delightful snail... that I feel a little sorry for..... because, that's as far as that twig goes, and now he has to go back down 
On the BAT front... I've caught and/or ejected five more. Regrettably, we also found three in the kitchen - dead down the side of the Aga (cooking range). Not being one to ever waste an opportunity (well, you never know when you might need detail in a bat), these two I kept:
On the BAT front... I've caught and/or ejected five more. Regrettably, we also found three in the kitchen - dead down the side of the Aga (cooking range). Not being one to ever waste an opportunity (well, you never know when you might need detail in a bat), these two I kept:
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Oh well, poor creatures 
But as you've mentioned, it's great opportunity to have a closer look on details/features Mike.
On the other hand - the life on Earth is so surprisingly impressive.., like on this example - a flying (mouse)
But as you've mentioned, it's great opportunity to have a closer look on details/features Mike.
On the other hand - the life on Earth is so surprisingly impressive.., like on this example - a flying (mouse)
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And not just a flying mouse... I'm in awe of the way they fly.
Just simple leathery wings... but they're so agile and acrobatic. Perhaps that should be "aerobatic"
I love watching then swoop and catch moths over our pond. They can change direction within a split-second; and the speed they achieve is rather more than impressive.