Petunia

This petunia flower stem broke off during planting and was rescued. Flowers are a difficult subject, one that I return to time and again for the learning. It takes a lot of squinting to see the many variations of value in one blossom!

Melon et al

Deliberate strokes on the melon - and on the clementines but lost their essence a bit - still keeping with my challenge.

Diagonals

These odd shadows are actually cast by the house - I found it intriguing.