I wanted these children to relate more to each other within the scene, possibly by connecting their shadows or their footprints in the sand....

I just bought my very first easel! What(?!) you say? Truthfully, I probably would still be propping my work up against a wall or on boxes to...

I put the original photo into Irfanview, greyscaled it, then selected 'emboss'. Much to my delight(!) the nepeta in the foreground (...

I couldn't resist...I brought out her inner lion. If there's anything harder than photographing a black cat it's photographing a...

Above is a more detailed life sketch, done yesterday when the weather was cooperating. I did it mostly to record the plant form but I think...

A stand of peacock orchids among white nepeta in my Moongarden. Peacock orchid~closeup Hosta bloom My gosh...has it been an entire week sinc...

This painting won't be going to market but I've sure had some fun with it. I used white acrylic gesso and dabbed it on the center of...

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...