Illustration Friday "Transportation" / Month of Pumpkins Day 9

Here is my illustration for IF's "transportation" theme. It's also day 9 of my project to paint one pumpkin painting a day during October. Yesterday I went out to Glenwood, Iowa to visit a friend and photograph pumpkins. We encountered a few garden friends - a huge praying mantis and lots of box elder beetles amongst the marigolds and mums. I imagine later that afternoon they got together with some moths and took a ride in a pumpkin carriage pulled by a garter snake off to a Fall gathering somewhere in the Glenwood Woods.

A Month of Pumpkins Day 8

Today I started working on an illustration (with a pumpkin) inspired by Illustration Friday's theme of "transportation" and also a visit I made to a friend's house in Iowa to photograph her pumpkins. It was a gorgeous day, a little too hot for October (in the 80s.) Wish I had been able to stay longer and actually paint them from life but I'll have to go back another day. I got some great photographs. We even coaxed her black lab to get in some pictures. Unfortunatley, I haven't quite finished painting my illustration so I'll just give you a teaser - it has a pumpkin and some fall flowers and a few bugs that we encountered. :)

Until tomorrow, here is a pumpkin painting that I did in 2005 before I started this blog.

A Month of Pumpkins Day 7

This one is in honor of my husband because today is our 21st wedding anniversary.  :)

A Month of Pumpkins Day 6 / Watercolor Wednesday

I'm using one painting for two blogs today. I posted this on Watercolor Wednesdays for the "Bewitching Hour" theme, too. There are pumpkins in this one. :)

A Month of Pumpkins - Day 5

My friend Theresa shared some pumpkin references with me and this painting is based on one of them. If it looks a little different from my other watercolors that's because I gessoed my watercolor paper first, not completely, I dripped some gesso on it then swirled it around with my brush, let it dry and then painted on top. It gives some really interesting texture underneath the watercolor.

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A Month of Pumpkins - Day 4 "Pumpkin Truck"

I've always admired the daily painters and secretly wanted to be part of the group but always chickened out. I'm trying to take this day to day and see if I can make it through the month. So far so good. Here's my 4th painting. To bid on Ebay, click here.

A Month of Pumpkins - Day 3

From  a reference photo from wetcanvas.com, here is Day 3.  To bid on the auction, click here.