Tattooed Woman ~ Day 29 of #30Faces30Days Sktchy

11x8.5 watercolor and ink line on paper, done for day 29 of #30Faces30Days Sktchy challenge.  Only one more face for me to do soon as January is over today.  With this model, I edited out many more tattoos that were all over her arms and hand.  A STA Lictin 0.3 pen used to sketch.
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Patterned Shirt ~ Day 28 #30Faces30Days

11x8.5 watercolor and ink line (Lictin 0.3 pen) finished today along with Day 29's ink portrait.  Only one left after that and the 30 day challenge is over.  Today's was to practice pattern design and this guy's shirt was a tropical beauty.
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Girl and Cardinals ~ Day 27 #30Faces30Days

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink line on paper for day 27 of the Sktchy challenge #30Faces30Days.  In this exercise, only the girl's image was given and we had to improvise a story for the rest of it as to what she was looking at above.  I chose a pair of loving cardinals whose colors and pine needles went with her attire.
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Manet's Bouquet

9x5.5 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper painted today of a simple mixed flowers bouquet in a vase originally done by Edouard Manet a year before he died.  He painted in oils, however, so had to adapt this to watercolor.  The pink roses are my favorite.
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Three Black Hollyhocks

5.5x3 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper painted this afternoon quickly, brush only, so no pre-drawing with pencil and fretting over the lines.  I used a #12 round brush and the same alizarin crimson + thalo green combination for the black color.  The bottom blooms have quinacridone violet and UB along with a touch of carbazole violet in this imaginary old-fashioned garden.
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Black Pansy

7.5x5.5 watercolor on Lanaquarelle 140 lb hot press paper done over the weekend from one of my pansy photo refs.  I did a monthly challenge on WetCanvas spotlighting dark or black flowers in their Florals forum. I still have a large black hollyhocks to paint soon.  Mixing my own black I used alizarin crimson and thalo green, two of the most transparent colors.  For variety I also added UB and carbazole violet to the mix.
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Carnation the January Flower

11x15 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper painted from a black & white photo (no color reference).  First I spritzed limited palette colors of arylide yellow, cobalt blue, and permanent rose on dry paper.  When that dried I then began pushing warm high key colors that reminded me of sherbet.  The plain ordinary carnation is my birthday flower and it usually plays second fiddle to the rose or other more stately varieties with reputations.  
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Day 20 ~ Squinting Man #30Faces30Days challenge

10.25x9 colored pencil in orange for this man with his tightened up face, day 20's work for the online Sktchy challenge of using only one color.
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Birthday!

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink on paper, an older work, a small still life bar drink scene complete with olives, cocktail napkin, and colorful shapes in the background.  Now it has been maybe 30 years since I had a martini but with a birthday coming up on the 23rd I just might.  For old times sake.  For art's sake.  For just being old's sake, lol!
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Day 19 ~ Marcel sketch #30Faces30Days

6.5x4.5 graphite and white pencil on toned sketch paper completed a few days ago for day number 19 of  Sktchy's online 30 faces in 30 days challenge.
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Woman w/ the Blues ~ Day 21 #30Faces30Days

9x6.5 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper that is today's work for the #30Faces30Days Sktchy online challenge.  We could choose any one color for this monochromatic exercise so ultramarine blue was it for me. Her not happy expression might mean she has the blues for sure.
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Donald's Calf

6.5x4.5 mixed media (Tombow black and burnt sienna brush pens, Magic colored pencils, apricot paint marker on toned sketch paper done today for online WetCanvas challenge in Southwest/Western forum; photo ref courtesy Donald Smith.
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Day 18 ~ Curly Top Boy #30Faces30Days

10.25x9 ink on sketchbook page for day 18 of Sktchy online #30Faces30Days challenge.  For this young man I used a Uniball Vision Elite pen.
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Country Birdhouses

5x7 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper done yesterday for a timed online event.  I enjoy painting country scenes such as this with birdhouses and trees.  Photo courtesy Bonnie in Canada.
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Cat Reflections

4x3.75 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper painted yesterday.  With doing so many figurative and portrait sketches this month I have to sneak a cat painting in somehow.  This ginger orange kitty is enjoying his morning sunlight in the windows.  See if you can find all three reflections.
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Man w/ Cup & Saucer ~ Day 16 #30Faces30Days using left hand

8.25x5.25 charcoal sketch over vintage book page that had watercolor washes on it.  Today's Day 16 Sktchy lesson was to use your non-dominant hand to sketch which I did and also signed my name left handed. But it helps to be ambidextrous.
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Long Bearded Man ~ Day 15 #30Faces30Days

12.25x8 watercolor on Italia Magnani 140 lb cold press paper done today for Day 15 of the #30Faces30Days Sktchy online challenge.  This dude was quite spooky with his bald head and full salt & pepper beard.  The lesson was on using warm and cool colors.
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White Capped Noddy Birds in Nest

11x15 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper; the mother bird is looking out of her nest to unseen dangers.  Her little one is covered by her protective wing.  Branches and twigs were negatively painted within a multicolored natural background.  These birds are seabirds of the tern family. 
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Black Hollyhocks and White Roses

7x5.5 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary garden flower scene in prepping today for a very large one of just black hollyhocks I'm getting ready to paint.  Mixed blacks were done using quinacridone violet, UB, quin magenta, permanent rose, carbazole violet, and indigo.
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Charolais Cow

15x22 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper completed today of same cow painted earlier and  reworked.  Lots of value challenges with this one!
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English Storefronts

16x12 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper done this afternoon for a timed event online.  I did crop other buildings from this townscape in England, focusing mainly upon the abundant flowers decorating the street and storefronts.  It was painted wet on dry.
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Teeny Tiny Kitten

2.75x3.5 watercolor on Saunders Waterford 140 lb hot press paper painted today, a miniature work featuring a tiny kitten.  I used a #1 script liner/rigger brush for all the color in the calico marked baby.
Actual size is below.

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Marshall's Schnauzer

5x7 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper recently done pet portrait commission of a sweet little Schnauzer named Kizzy Mae.  May she rest in peace at the rainbow bridge.  This work is SOLD.
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Closed Eyes Day 8 #30Facesin30Days woman

11x8.5 watercolor over graphite sketch on Strathmore Journal for mixed media done today for day 8 of the Sktchy challenge.  Participants are given an image plus instructions.  Today's was to mix your blacks and not use black.  For the most part I have used ultramarine blue + quinacridone burnt orange, then a mixed purple and an orange.
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Hair Guy ~ Day 6 of #30Faces30Days

11x5.5 charcoal and graphite on Strathmore toned paper sketched for yesterday's Sktchy challenge assignment #30Faces30Days.  I cropped the man's face and shoulders out to focus more on his mile high hair.  We were to put a word with the sketch so HAIR is what he is really all about.
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Fat Rat

5x5 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper sketched yesterday then painted today for a Facebook page All Animals Watercolor challenge; this is week one's prompt.  I've painted mice before but never a rat and think they are quite comical.
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Day 5 of 30 Faces in 30 Days plus some more

8.25x5.25 Micron 05 and watercolor on vintage book text done today for the 30 Faces in 30 Days challenge as offered by Sktchy online class.  Below are Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4 images all in the same format.

 Day 2

 

Day 3

Day 4

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Midnight at the Oasis

22x15 watercolor and wax crayon on 140 lb Saunders Waterford cold press paper painted in 2006.  The camels were drawn using a tiny toy wooden carved camel and background made up.  I sold reproduction rights to a card company and had not ever posted this online or on the blog.  No sign of the three wise men.
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Old Stone Bridge

10x14 watercolor on Stonehenge 140 lb hot press paper done at end of December, an imaginary snow covered stone bridge with its bare branches and brush poking through.  The cold icy stream runs under it.
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Hummer Bath

5.25x7.25 watercolor on Lanaquarelle 140 lb hot press paper done during Christmas week for another online challenge featuring animals.  This hummingbird has his eyes closed as he sits in a shallow birdbath.
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30 Faces in 30 Days ~ Sktchy Class

8.25x5.25 STA Lictin ink pen blind contour sketch in vintage book as the first sketch of the new year.  Sktchy art site offers various challenges and this is their 30 faces in 30 days.  A new image is given to the class every day with instructions.  My finished face at the top is with gouache added, then Montana acrylic markers for the background.
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