Candy Mints ACEO

2.5x3.5 watercolor on 140 lb hot press Fabriano paper done recently, sketched and painted from life using wrapped and unwrapped green and white mints along with a chocolate mint.  These are the candies given out as freebie mints at restaurants.  Actual size of my art card edition original is seen below.

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Fireball Poppies

12x8 alcohol inks on white freezer paper done this afternoon using 3 warm colors and 1 cool green for stems and leaves.  Those were made with the tip of a wooden chopstick and a drop of Lettuce ink.
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Backcountry Barn

12x9 watercolor on Fluid 140 lb cold press paper sketched this morning then painted this afternoon, an imaginary country scene of a rundown old barn.  The rocky landscape foreground was fun to paint wet in wet in layers as was the middle ground.  The fence is still up so suppose someone is running cattle.  Storm clouds are building up overhead. When dry, splattering was done for texture.
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Krakow Evening

8.5x5 watercolor on Fluid 140 lb cold press paper begun yesterday then finished today as part of another weekend drawing event on WetCanvas.  For the 2 hour time limit, I managed to get it done in about 45 minutes.  With the silhouetted buildings the sky was an opportunity to create some dark, dancing clouds in the fading evening light.
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Cherry Trio ACEO

2.5x3.5 watercolor on 140 lb hot press paper, drawn from life before I ate them recently.  This art card edition original still life is a fun, fresh way to look at summer fruit.  A complementary palette of red and green was used.

Actual size is below:

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Sky over Beach

9x12 watercolor of the sky with clouds starting to intensify in hopes of a rain shower.  Look closely and you can see tiny figures off the beach in this low horizon painting done recently.
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Pink Lace flower in inks

4x6 alcohol inks on glossy photo paper finished today.  It is more pink than this scan shows and Pink Sherbet was the color.  Stem made using a drop of Lettuce (green) on tip of wooden chopstick for this imaginary flower. 
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