Baby Bear

This one is a fun little wc sketch of our crazy little kitten, Osito. The name means "baby bear" in Spanish and seems to be a perfect fit, as demonstrated by his tree climbing abilities. Kaily caught him in the act with a wonderful reference photo which I used to paint this one. Hope you get a good chuckle out of this one...we did.

Olga's Window

This was one of about three or four ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for the last few weeks. I have not been able to lay brush to paper near as often as I would like to, so this is the only piece that made it's way out of that jumbled mess commonly referred to as my mind! It is about 14x18" painted on Fabriano cp 140lb paper. I have been testing out some new colors that were recommended to me by Char from WetCanvas, and this is my first effort with some of the new paints. Hope you like it.

Village Farm

This is a piece I started last week, that I really kind of gave up on. I went ahead and posted it on WetCanvas and asked for a "no holds barred" critique and received some excellent feedback. I decided to post both the "before" and "after" pictures. Hopefully, you can tell which is which!

As I was painting this, I was thinking about my upcoming class that I will begin to teach in January. I had one of those, "do what I say and not what I do" moments. I had laid down a nice wash in the sky and it was drying nicely when I got this hair-brained idea to drop another color in. Well, that is a watercolor 101 NO-NO, but for some reason, I couldn't help myself! Oops! Of course, it had disastrous results, but overall, I feel I pulled it out rather nicely. Hope you enjoy, it is painted on Farbiano cp 140lb paper and is about 9.5" x 20". It is taken from a lovely reference photo from watercolorbill at WetCanvas.