Semi Abstract Figures in Watercolor

This is a painting I did with the All Events Media group on Wetcanvas. I took a semi abstract approach to explore shape and color inspired by Carla O'Connor. It was actually pretty exciting. Now I'm going to start another one.

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all you great Dad's out there!

Harry & Charlie

This illustration is inspired by my two nephews. Colored in Photoshop.

Hello? I'm not dead. :)

My blog has been in a coma, but I've still been doing creative stuff. Mostly for school though....I paint with some friends sometimes and they work in oils so one day in February I decided to fool around. I've used oils before but with cats and kids it's difficult plus I just love watercolor. The brush was just too fussy and my painting was looking very sad so I switched to the palette knife. Fun!  It took weeks to dry. 

Lucky for me my friend was having a workshop and I sold it before it was finished! 

Cherry Blossoms  11 x 14 masonite

Alphonse Mucha Inspired Self Portrait

I've been taking an Illustration class for the past 11 weeks. A lot of it has been done in Adobe Illustrator but when I can I've done the project in watercolor. This is the last one. We had to do a self-portrait. What I've enjoyed about this class is the tremendous amount of freedom we've had with the projects. Basically the assignment was do a self-portrait however you want. Text optional. I did an Alphonse Mucha inspired project for another class and used my daughter for the model. This time I did me. I did this one pretty small so I could get it done today but I have a much larger painting in the works. Maybe I'll make myself smile a little bit better on that one...

Goldfinch

I can't believe it's been two months since I've posted. Been really busy with school and I will start posting some of the work I'm doing. For now, here's a cute goldfinch that I'm teaching my watercolor class.

Peppermints

I painted these candies as a lesson for my watercolor class this month. If you are interested in this project, I put together a 7 page pdf booklet and you can purchase it here.