Overall I'm happy with the level of detail I was able to achieve using just the tip of my small round. I'm also starting to get more comfortable with my pan paints, which was the whole point of me painting this onion.
I think the other thing that helped was I did this one inside, whereas the other two were done outside. Presently I'm much more a studio painter than a plein air painter ('en plein air' is a french phrase that means something like, 'in the open air'. Another way of thinking of it would just be painted from life while outside). Having said that I specifically put this kit together with the intention of using it anywhere any time, so I need to figure out what's not working as well for me when I'm not in the studio.
I don't like how close it is to the bottom edge, so clearly composition matters a great deal to me even in these little sketches in my book. It's something I'll have to keep in mind and work on.
As a side note from doing these and scanning them and posting them I'm starting to see and understand why I'm having some of the printing issues I have when printing digital work. Even though I use a professional monitor calibration tool, something is still off about it. I've been strongly considering putting my old CRT back into use because I felt it had truer colors uncalibrated than my LCD does with the calibration...
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