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…..