Well, sometimes things work out and sometimes they don't. In this case, they didn't but I will post my results anyway. I made a vow ...

I transferred my drawing to Fabriano HP paper, then applied a layer of frisket film over top. I started cutting away areas of frisket and ju...

I haven't made much progress on this to date. I spent the better part of an hour just sorting out the tangle of sepals by adding values....

My line drawing w/beginnings of a value study After I had my way with this flower in Elements 6.0 The original image..a real beauty :) One o...

The completed painting. The Zig marker is very shiny gold but I'm not sure that's apparent in this image. I've removed the old f...

This is the result after another 4 pours, two with Pyrrol red, another just Indian yellow and one with a mixture of both. The first pour whi...

Step 4) Completion. I've added more gouache, some colored pencil including the gold metallic for accent and tweaked this as much as I da...

This was my experiment using colored pencils. I made notes, jotting down which color combos I liked and seemed to work well together. I have...

I fiddled around some more with the color study I posted the 13th of this month. I'm still undecided as to a palette for this painting. ...

It's so rare that I get a really good photo of the Moon but I did last night. It's on the wane and it was very orange. If you look c...

I finished my value study. I was most interested to see if I still had good distribution of the lightest and darkest values after making my ...

I think this will be the final drawing. There is good movement throughout, interesting shapes in the corners and nothing pops out at me that...

Truth be told, I could sure use a fur job(haircut)and a 'tail' lift right about now. ;D Yesterday was my birthday...again. Seems the...

I took one small section from the whole and did a quick color study last night. It looks sloppy because it is. I've got the end result i...

This is the final result. All the pieces taped together. The dimensions came to approx. 26" x 14" . Apparently enlarging a small i...

After applying the watercolor filter I converted the resulting image to black & white and switched it to infrared. I like the extreme va...

Here is the result of a mixture of silver oil based enamel paint and watercolor/fluid acrylic poured onto damp w/c paper. Pretty dramatic, w...

This afternoon I decided to try Ann Blockley's technique of applying oil based metallic paint onto wet watercolor. My first attempt was ...

I need to stop working on this right now before I tweak it to death. Sometimes you just have to put the brush down and walk away. I have no ...

This guy needs some gouache whiskers, ear hairs and a few edges need softening. I tried another crop but found I like this one best. I think...