Penguin Friends

Todays picture is a copy of my pastel done last March. I just like these little animals so much. I have prints of them available for sale as well as the original.

THE HUMMINGBIRDS

HERE IS AN OLD PAINTING. IT IS A WATERCOLOR.

Bath Time

I started this painting several years ago. I had a piece of watercolor board that I wished to use since it had been hanging around my studio for years. Unfortunatelly, it had developed a film on it and resisted the paint. Today's painting is mostly gouache but there is also colored pencil. It started as a watercolor. I ended up covering the painting with gesso so it would accept the paint.I often found when I tried to darken an area it picked up all the previous colored I had laid dowm. That is one reason the wall was done with a sponge . Using the sponge to blot on color I was able to darken the wall. It was a real challage topaint. I am pleased with it many years after the rocky start.

Butterfly in Cone Flowers

This is another Butterfly painting for my collector friend.
It was done in watercolor then I went over the
flowers in colored pencil.
Finally, I painted a mask on the butterfly, then used an airbrush
and sprayed on a paynes gray watercolor over the edges to throw
the flowers more into the background.

The Life of a Butterfly

Today's picture was done for a butterfly collector. I used her photos as reference. It the painting is a caterpillar and larva also from her photo collection. I used gouache to paint the foliage as I really like the colors and large range of greens the paint give you.

The Robin in the storm

 Here is an acrylic that I started a year ago. It is an illustration of a story about a robin in a storm.