More Watercolors

Alright! by request.

This first one is from an afternoon painting with Evie.
The Roses were Angel's Valentines Day gift, she likes it.
and the last was just bit of messing around.

Watercolor

Another watercolor landscape.

Sunrise Concert

Just finished this piece. I'm pretty happy with it. Learned a few things along the way. Drawn in pencil and painted in Photoshop.

Edit: I've adjusted a few things.

Watercolor doodle

I did this while painting with my daughter. Its quite small and will be a thank you card for a friend. Its about 5" x 3.5" or something like that.

a sketch

or a couple of sketches on one piece of really old paper. . .

Finished!

Forest Gnome and friend.

WIP Forest Gnome

Photoshop crashed twice on me tonight while painting this . .. both times was while I was saving. So, I've got no further on it. . .

But, I'm happy with where its going and I like how the little guy is turning out. Here is a little peek at part of it.

creature sketches

Just some very unfinished sketches today. . . Man, I've got to start taking better care of my paper.

Pursuit

This is a painting I did for my brother-in-law for his birthday this weekend. Don't tell him yet. He's into sailing ships and especially ones from the Napoleonic era. This was fun, I've never painted a ship before. Lucky that there's the internet for reference pictures!

Happy New Year!

I have mixed feelings about the fact that 2008 is here already. On the one hand I'm excited by my resolution (and I mean this one!) to finish a portfolio quality (whatever that means) illustration or painting every week to two weeks. I figure that by year's end I should have a decent amount of stuff to choose from for a real portfolio. But, on the other hand 2008 means that I'm getting older. Now, I'm not old by any means but I have definitely transitioned (at least in my head) from a young guy to whatever follows. I know that its all relative but since I'm usually surrounded by 20-somethings it feels weird that I haven't been one of them for several years. . . .

Anyway, to the point of the post. I've been experimenting with watercolors a bit lately and while I'm far from even decent, I do like working with them. So, here's one that I scanned. The companion piece was a gift for my mom for Christmas and looked way better than this one.


Oh, its about 6"x 9" or something close to that. . .