# Finished Peony YAY! **URL:** \ **Category:** Share Your Art\ **Created:** [July 27, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190 "2023-07-27T14:04:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Meme5](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/meme5/32/6555_2.png) [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/1 "2023-07-27T14:04:34Z")
200 years later…Finished my Pea-oh-nie!!! That Stonehenge paper can take a beating! Layered, erased, more layers, lots of burnishing and more layering. Now to catch up with first soft pastels live lesson… 🏃🏻‍♀️ ![IMG_3652](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thevirtualinstructor/original/2X/c/c4db559a331de83192492cccd9a1fa12a9a83566.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![TLP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/45deac/32.png) [@TLP](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/TLP)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/2 "2023-07-27T22:18:35Z")
Sonia, This is beautiful. You really made it your own a lovely shade of lilac. Teri ---
**Author:** ![Meme5](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/meme5/32/6555_2.png) [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/3 "2023-07-27T23:29:27Z")
It turned out very purplish alright. Plus 2 of my 5 lightbulbs kitchen fixture went out last night which makes the picture darker …darker shade of purple sigh ---
**Author:** ![Denise](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/denise/32/40_2.png) [@Denise](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Denise)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/4 "2023-07-28T12:50:38Z")
Fabulous job! Love it. ---
**Author:** ![Brenda](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/brenda/32/3459_2.png) [@Brenda](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Brenda)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/5 "2023-07-28T17:35:52Z")
I really love this. I may have to try it at some point. Looks so frilly!!! Brenda ---
**Author:** ![Meme5](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/meme5/32/6555_2.png) [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/6 "2023-07-28T17:57:14Z")
I hope you do, it was a great learning experience for me. I also found that the stonehenge paper is so forgiving, it takes so many pencil layers. ---
**Author:** ![Meme5](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/meme5/32/6555_2.png) [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/7 "2023-07-28T18:01:07Z")
Thank you! I appreciate it! 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Brenda](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/brenda/32/3459_2.png) [@Brenda](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Brenda)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/8 "2023-07-28T18:08:07Z")
Stonehenge has to be my favorite all-purpose paper. It can take a lot of abuse and still looks great! Brenda ---
**Author:** ![Meme5](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/meme5/32/6555_2.png) [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/9 "2023-07-28T18:15:14Z")
Couldn’t agree more. I’m sure if i had used Bristol, I would’ve ruined it with my peony drawing. ---
**Author:** ![TLP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/45deac/32.png) [@TLP](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/TLP)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/10 "2023-07-28T22:55:11Z")
Sonia, I like the color. It makes it originally yours! Teri ---
**Author:** ![Meme5](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/meme5/32/6555_2.png) [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/11 "2023-07-29T21:34:14Z")
It must’ve been my initial obsession with shopping around for that elusive Lilac pencil, my subconscious was probably like “lilac, lilac, must. get. lilac?!” ---
**Author:** ![TLP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/45deac/32.png) [@TLP](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/TLP)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 4:43am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/12 "2023-07-30T04:43:48Z")
Sonia, That is great! lilac - lol! It did turn out beautiful! Teri ---
**Author:** ![matriarchJane39](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@matriarchJane39](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/matriarchJane39)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/13 "2023-08-02T18:33:16Z")
The finished peony is lovely, but it has lost that sun-kissed look which I really liked. Sometimes I think we get stubbornly obsessed with doing something and not appreciating what we have accomplished. Doing art is not making an exact copy of whatever it is, but what we learn along the journey. ---
**Author:** ![Meme5](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/meme5/32/6555_2.png) [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/14 "2023-08-02T18:52:24Z")
It was cloudy on my peony lol 😝 In all seriousness I agree with you. I really struggled to get over not having the right colors, also with not ripping it and starting over for the second time. Sigh ---
**Author:** ![matriarchJane39](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@matriarchJane39](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/matriarchJane39)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/15 "2023-08-02T20:18:44Z")
I don’t throw anything out. There’s lessons to be learned from the mistakes we make. Not bad to get a lunch in the ego occasionally either. Although none of your peony attempts could ever be called mistakes. They were beautiful. Jane ---
**Author:** ![Vgentry58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f04885/32.png) [@Vgentry58](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Vgentry58)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/16 "2023-08-03T15:46:02Z")
I love how it turned out Sonia!! I love the lighting effect on the peony. Just gorgeous! ---
**Author:** ![Meme5](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/meme5/32/6555_2.png) [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/17 "2023-08-08T02:39:24Z")
Thank you, it was a very enjoyable challenge. ---
**Author:** ![Silverkat45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Silverkat45](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Silverkat45)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/18 "2024-07-06T17:02:19Z")
Here I am in July 2024 coming close to finishing my peony. It’s the first time I’ve looked at anyone else’s work (through several years of courses and projects) and instead of feeling discouraged about my own work, it’s made me feel better about it. Seeing yours, which is fairly different from mine, I realize that yours is gorgeous. Yes, yours is a bit darker, but that’s fine. It’s beautiful. Seeing how someone else executes a project just illustrates that there are a number of equally good ways to go about it. ---
**Author:** ![Meme5](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/meme5/32/6555_2.png) [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/20 "2024-07-06T20:08:26Z")
Hello @Silverkat45, I’m so glad you found your way to this forum and found inspiration through someone else’s work. Oh, I remember drawing that peony! It took me a looooong time to finish it. But it was so worth it, I framed it! 😃 I think I’d gotten my first full set of prismacolors, and realized that they didn’t have lilac included the set of 150 any longer!!! They have lavender and amethyst but no lilac. So I looked everywhere and found 5 open stock lilac pencils, BUT when they arrived, there was ONLY ONE LILAC and 4 amethyst pencils! Child, you have stirred up some stressful memories 🤣🤣🤣 I hope you post your completed peony plus share your artwork here! Sonia ---
**Author:** ![pottsie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/pottsie/32/5208_2.png) [@pottsie](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/pottsie)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190/21 "2024-07-07T00:36:09Z")
Sonia, Wonderful job Sonia. It’s a beautiful 200 year old peony! Bill Potts [Next page](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/finished-peony-yay/3190.md?page=2)