Trees and Time-Lapse

I worked on this little sketch today. It's on an Arches hot-pressed watercolor block. Paper is not my favorite to paint on, but it's always good to practice. Trees are a challenge for me, so I decided to give them a little time today.

I've also been messing around with my new iPhone. I've never owned one (crazy, I know). But I broke down and got one about a month ago and have been having a lot of fun taking photos, and planning out animated Instagram posts not to mention some stop-animation video of my Fisher Price Little People. My time-lapse of today's sketch is below . . . enjoy the funky jams. Ha!

Happy painting and I'm heading back to the drawing board!  

New Stuff

I thought you might like to see the beginnings of my newest painting.  You can see the little study and color swatches in my sketchbook above, and the beginning values of the painting below.  I'm going to try to resist getting too fussy with this one, we'll see how I do.  :)  Have a good weekend!

Quick Raspberries

I worked on this quick little raspberry sketch along with another one today.  I still have to go back in and tone down the shadows with a little burnt sienna.  I'm also finishing up a commission in acrylic.  

Happy painting!  Thanks for stopping in.