Life, photo, drawing

We went walking downtown in late February.  It was so nice & unseasonably warm.  One photo sparked this ink drawing. Mixing ink colors was new to me but it think it turned out rather well. 

Still life #4

Probably the hardest still life that I have ever done! The angel sculpture,  the multifaceted parasol, the blue glass vs scratched up clear glass, the nest ball, the cubes and all on a dark tablecloth.  After two to three weeks of work  i am "done" with this drawing.  Hindsight has also taught me to be sure to track where other drawings are in the paper supply. All this work ended up on the back of a large pastel sunflower. Woops!

Stll life #3

This cute little snail pepper shaker posed under a new houseplant. Variegated leaves are hard to paint. 2020 is shaping up to be very productive so far.

still life #2 - pastel

Finished Feb2. More flowers in vases from my dad's funeral.  I now own the antique but fully usable miter saw used as background.

Painting on wood

The simplicity of tulips inspired me to finally try something I've been wanting to do.  The wood absorbed some of the acrylic but the painting turned out very well.

As a sidenote, flowers fade vey fast. I should have done this painting in one day. Woops! 

Hardest puzzle ever!

It is finally finished! This photomosaic puzzle shrunk the Star Wars pic down to quarter inch by half inch then did a R2D2 by tone. It was a really hard three weeks of puzzling. 

Practice

So today I practiced sketching with paint. This is a basic hand study with the hardest part as skin color. Obviously I am pink skined. I had to google how to mix a paint color that looked caucasian & I'm still not happy with the results. I will have to try again sometime soon.