The Little Nuthatch — people paintings
3x5 Art Challenge Day 3.
The 3x5 Art Challenge is going around the internet... you post 3 pieces of art for 5 days, and tag others to do the same. Foregoing the tagging, I thought I'd share mine on the good old blog. Day 3, these are all watercolor paintings I did 2006-2008. At this time I was painting mostly people. These are pieces I still sell prints of. "Undersea Instrumentals- Banjo" (from a set of 5): "Fresh Air": "Rolling Waves":
3x5 Art Challenge Day 2.
The 3x5 Art Challenge is going around the internet... you post 3 pieces of art for 5 days, and tag others to do the same. Foregoing the tagging, I thought I'd share mine on the good old blog. Day 2, I share with you my first watercolor painting. I took a class in January 2005 and was hooked. This first watercolor was done on cheap Strathmore paper that I would never use now, and I inked it, being used to inking everything at that time with my previous coloring technique of markers and pencils. "Amaryllis": ...
3x5 Art Challenge Day 1.
The 3x5 Art Challenge is going around the internet... you post 3 pieces of art for 5 days, and tag others to do the same. Foregoing the tagging, I thought I'd share mine on the good old blog. Day 1, I am going back to 2001/2002, before I started watercolor painting. I was using a Prismacolor pencils and markers (LOTS of colorless blender markers to blend the pencils), and nupastels for the backgrounds.
Fun painting.
I did this painting a while back, totally just having fun painting, playing with colors and making up my own bird (reminds me a little of a Resplendent Quetzal). Sometimes you just need to take a break and play, no worrying about references, accuracy, or usefulness!
Koala Yummies.
Koala bear and girl with eucalyptus hair. I don't know, I can't seem to help referring to this painting as "Kaola Yummies", after the Japanese snacks with adorable koalas printed on them.