Jingle Bell Tree II

Once again, I love playing around with the crop feature to see what better image I might get. This is still very rough, but I could see this as a card...

Jingle Bell Tree

It's not too early to be thinking about creating Christmas cards. This cute idea was an ad for the San Diego Zoo. I had fun trying out texture medium with this one. This is probably not the right image for that because it's hard to see on the tree. The background shows it better. I also learned to be sure you are totally finished before you write anything.

Unique Cropping

The start of this painting was rather nice and then, which happens more often then not, I rushed through it and lost my direction. I like it better cropped and flipped. Maybe I could start again using the cropped version as my guide. I also want the fan shell in front to lay down a little.

It seems like smaller and simplier seem to work out best.

Tucker

I caught Tucker listening to someone. My intent was to make some kind of Christmas card with this look ... maybe getting into mischief under a tree ...

I ended up just painting him as is. Sometimes you just have to paint for fun.

No. California Vacation

Here are some pictures from our vacation. We started in Lake Tahoe and worked our way around through Downieville, Nevada City and finished in San Francisco. With the weather in the 90's in So. Ca., it was nice to be in the mountains. Because many schools already started this week, there were hardly any tourists. The girls would have like more excitement, but we finally started to relax toward the end of our trip.

No Boundaries

Two neighborhood boys caught horsing around. This painting was selected for San Diego Watercolor Exhibit last summer.

"Antique Egg Prints"

Sorry I've been away so long... too many things going on besides our scanner finally giving up. I hated that thing. I would get a million error messages and then finally it would scan. My hubby brought home an old scanner from work and it still scans beautifully. So, woo hoo I'm back.

Here's a fun project I've always wanted to do. Did you ever admire the antique egg prints? I found a blog (I forgot to save her name) and she suggested printing from the New York Public Library digital archive. It took a little time but I found the egg prints.

Then, I printed some for shape only and did my watercolor thing. I did take some artistic license. It's really fun. I used 2 different watercolor papers and I think it made a difference. The first pair is on 150 archers. The second pair is on 140 lanaquarelle.