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Alabama, art, botanical art, drawing, food, gardening, illustration, sketchbook, Val Webb
I love drawing the texture of an orange peel. It requires a very light touch and some time spent looking deeply at surface light and shadow. These studies in pencil are a preliminary to a color illustration that will combine all four. Can you name them all? (The answers are at the end of this post.)
The first sketch is a satsuma. The second is a satsuma, partially peeled. The third is a Meyer lemon. The fourth is a pair of kumquats. Now I’m hungry.
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These are so beautiful! Excellent modeling, too! Now I’m off to eat an orange…