Two More Minis

4x4 w/c

Minis

I had so much fun painting these little 4x4 watercolours!  Painting small meant no risk, I am going to try and do lots of little ones for my upcoming show.  Let me know if there is an animal you would like to see.  No promises, but I will do my best.  

The King

12x12 w/c

Cat

sold

12x12 w/c

Out There!

This giraffe is for my classroom.  My grade ones and I are trying to be "giraffes" and stick our necks out for other people.  He will be a good reminder for us.

9x12 w/c

Checkered Past

5x7 w/c

I have been working on this little guy forever!  I was getting really caught up in the feathers when I finally stepped back and thought about the reason I wanted to paint him.  It was the expression on his face and the pattern in his feathers so I decided to focus more on his face and incorporate pattern elsewhere.  I cropped off all of the extra parts and I'm quite happy with him.  I'm looking forward to doing more of this kind of painting where I relax a little more and don't worry so much about my painting looking like the source but rather painting what I want to see.  The title refers both to the checker board pattern and also to the fact that this guy was a rescue.  Who knows what got him there!

Bugged

11x15 w/c on board

another painting of a www.johnyatesphotos.com photo.   Thanks John!

Baby Baboon

12x12 w/c on board
Another painting of a John Yates photo www.johnyatesphotos.com

Griz swimming

30x40 watercolour on board

Thanks to John Yates the photographer who provided the original image.  www.johnyatesphotos.com

Mom's sea shell

My mom has a cabinet in her bathroom that I have painted various folk art paintings on over the years.  She just changed her theme and I painted this sea shell and beach scene on the back of an old snowman pic.  I used absorbent ground first and then did the painting in watercolour and varnished it after.  It will look good in the door of her little cabinet!  Absorbent ground is very absorbent!  There is no colour lifting at all!