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This is the Sri Kandaleeswarar Koil at Thenneri, built by Sembiyan Mathevi over a 1000 years ago, in memory of her son Uthamar Chozhan...

This is an approximately 4" x 5" sketch. I did the ink sketch with a black ink gel pen, in early May 2024, in around ten minutes. I...

Thanks Joy, this one was fun to paint.

Grapes, very convincing as three dimensional due to your expert highlights and shading. Beautiful transparent shadow.

Anne and Joy, thank you! 🩷 🩷

Lovely pinecone Grapes.

Wonderful highlights and shadow matching the shape. Very natural looking.

Thank you for commenting, Joy!

Great highlights and background.

Beautifully done, Grapes! I like how the simple background really makes this fruit stand out. Your still life subjects are so exotic...

Very nice .. great edges

Donna, thank you! I used burnt umber for the background, long time ago I stopped using it for the backgrounds but I might start using it...

Donna, thank you! Wayne, thanks so much!

Good shadow control and coloring

Merry Christmas to you, too, and thanks for sharing your work! This is so well done for such a complicated subject.