Mule Train

18x24 watercolor on Canson 140 lb block, American Journey/Daniel Smith paints, drawn for WetCanvas.com Weekend Drawing Event challenge. Participants are given 2 hours to choose a photo and draw or paint it. If not done by then you should take a photo, post that, then continue til finished, posting your completed painting for other artists to view and critique.

Stock Market

15x22 watercolor demo done today in Snyder. I used Saunders 140 lb CP paper with American Journey paints and Daniel Smith.

Tintern Abbey Cows, Wales UK

11x15 watercolor from my May 2010 photo taken in Wales of these cows grazing next to the famous abbey.

It Has Been a Year!

We are celebrating that it has been one year since Nita built my beautiful blog! Thanks to all my followers who keep growing in numbers. Thanks to her for all her hard work.

Here's a little info about the above work:

20x16 Arches CP 140 lb, Daniel Smith paints. I took this terrible watercolor done a few years ago of a woman holding a basket of flowers, and added flower shapes cut out of gift wrap, photos, and cocktail napkins glued on as collage. Her petticoat stencil was done with a paper lacy placemat. It is still bad but better than before. I shouldn't have put a red flower so close to her leg and might still cover it with another color so it reads better. Have more fun ideas brewing in this warped brain for me to do and you to enjoy looking at.

Dave the Cat

15x11 watercolor and pastel of Dave, Lin's (of WetCanvas) kitty who lives in the UK, courtesy photo. Included in the current weekend drawing event participants have 2 hours to complete a painting with furnished references, with challenges sometimes added. One of Lin's challenges was to use mixed media so I added pastel accents hoping to catch the disdain on Dave's face along with the haughty grandeur of a tomcat.

Dark Red Amaryllis

32x22 acrylic on black painted paper, ink, pastel on these amaryllis drawn from life.

Rusted Jimmy

11x15 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper of this vintage 1951 GMC truck that used to be dark green. Cracked, rusted, and now out to pasture it sits. May it rust in peace.