Michele

You've carried your freer, yet accurate contour line work from the previous week's drawings of the squash into these wonderfully executed sketches. The contour studies show that you're breaking away from tightly rendered drawings and beginning to loosen up with expressive tonal values and long, flowing lines. This will be very helpful in applying your drawing skills to exploring larger compositions for your paintings. Perhaps an impressionistic landscape composition of the view from your studio window? :-) Fantastic job of using gray tones to show the different values of green. Really nice how you used layers of lines and tones to show the contrast between the darker background leaves and the subtle textures of the foreground leaves. Excellent use of the kneaded eraser to show textures and highlights. Explore loosening yor line work and keeping it sketchy, Michele!