Winter Wonderland
This year’s theme for the Festival of Trees was a “Winter Wonderland”. I’m super happy with how this poster came out. I was really inspired and loved painting it. Below is the artwork before and after adding text and some snow.
Piglets
I’ve done a couple ATC swaps now. This one I think is my favorite so far. It was an open theme, so I could do whatever I wanted. My cousin used a couple of them as the pictures on her wedding invites too, it was very flattering. It was adorable, they had little flying piglet cupcakes as their cake too. 🙂
Unicorn Painting
I finished the Unicorn painting finally! I think it could have come out better, but I’m pretty happy with it all the same. I also have the sketch on the computer, so I can always try it again digitally. I may do that, because I think the part that I want to do better is the contrast of light in the painting. Darker colors in the background, to contrast with the sun beams up front. Still, this painting really does make me…
Unicorn
This is a scan of a sketch I’ve been working on for a while now.. trying to figure out the coloring just right, then I gotta just grit my teeth and paint it! I got a beautiful reference for the horse from a Morgan horse at the Granite Rose Morgans farm nearby. http://graniterosemorgans.com/
Landscape studies
I did a couple quick studies from the photos I posted the other day. They’re a bit sketchy, but you can get an idea of the sort of work we’ll be trying to do on Saturday. Here’s to hoping for sun! =) I’m still working on painting a mural on our hallway’s wall. I’ll post a picture of that as soon as I can – it’s sort of hard to photograph. There are no good angles. I may have to…
Watercolor Samples
During my watercolor class and afterwards I had to make a lot of example cards to show techniques. Here are some of them together in case anyone wanted to see them. =) I’m happy with how the packaging material ones came out. I was pleasantly surprised at the watery look of the flat plastic packing sheets (top left). I have another class today – drawing this time! – and I am feeling less than prepared. I still need to find…
Koi Fish ATC Swap
A while back I joined an ATC swap over at doodleswap. It was their 10th round and there was no theme. I wanted to do something that worked together but stood alone pretty well, while still being somewhat easy to make. I ended up doing a koi fish “pond”, where each card has a koi fish and some lily-pads on it. Here’s what they look like all together: I hope everyone enjoyed the cards they got. I am thinking of joining…
Watercolor Class
Watercolor Class went spectacular! It was short of perfect but it was my first class after all. I’ve planned a lot more classes from now til October and I hope a lot of people sign up. I’m especially excited for “Outdoors Watercolor” were I’ll take people out of the store and down to our covered bridge and maybe the park for a while too. It’ll be a real lesson in taking your paints to-go and painting what you see. It’ll be…
Watercolor Class!
I’m teaching a class! Beginner’s Watercolor to be exact, here’s the class info: “This Saturday is a watercolor class for those of us who want to just get started with painting. I will be teaching some basic watercolor techniques including washes, graded washes, splatter, salt and even scraping the paint! Once we have those down we’ll get painting! I have a lot more techniques up my sleeve I can teach you guys so I can’t wait to get started. The…
Sold a Painting!
First original art sold! I sold my “Pumpkin Queen” Painting on 1/16/11 at the Arisia art show. First time I was in the show too, super excited. =D Digital pic doesn’t do the midtones justice, it was great in person.. I’ll miss this piece.