Some fun (but serious!) aspects of botanical painting…. Like…. How to paint a dew-drop….! Paint a little oval shape darker than the background colour…. Paint inside the oval from dark to light - dark side nearer light source….. Paint a shadow under the dew-drop, on the side opposite the light… Then pick out highlights on the light-side with a craft-knife.. …. and you have a dew-drop….! ..And if you want to make fungi look 3D…..