Latest Artistic Endeavour.

After doing those little ATCs for the WetCanvas WDE a few weeks ago, I got the bug! Here are some more I painted over the last week. One is for a trade (the green one) and the other two I am thinking of keeping for myself! They are so cute! Especially the puppy!

WetCanvas WDE - 9.

This weeks pictures at the WetCanvas Weekly Drawing Event are beautiful. I did the "egg bowl" drawing using prismacolor pencils in my sketchbook and the "duck in a bucket" painting with watercolours in my sketchbook. I am really enjoying doing the WDEs at the moment. They give me an excuse to do more art!

WetCanvas WDE 8.

This week I was pushed for time so I just did this quick watercolour sketch. I like the way the head turned out. I have used purple for the shading instead of my usual black and I think it is an improvement.
Watercolour on cartridge paper in my sketchbook.

WetCanvas WDE - 7

I used this weeks WetCanvas Weekly Drawing Event as an opprtunity to create some ATCs. These are oils on canvas ATC sized paintings.
I am doing six but I have 5 near complete so here they are.

WetCanvas WDE - 6

This weeks WetCanvas Weekly Drawing Event was hosted by Kathy with photos from the Virgin Islands.
I decided to do watercolour sketches of 3 of the photos.
1: Trunk Bay.
2: Bird of Paradise.
3: sea turtle.
Great fun and with limited time, these took me about 1/2 an hour each.

WetCanvas WDE 5

This weeks WetCanvas event was alot of fun.
I tried my hand at painting this giraffe in oils.
12" X 16". This painting took me about 5 hours if you don't include drying time.
I also had to capture these adorable ringtail Maki's. This one is watercolour and took me about half an hour in my 5X8 sketchbook. I actually like this one better!

WetCanvas WDE 4

I drew this for this weeks Weekend Drawing Event over at WetCanvas. I have used black pen and prismnacolor pencls to colour. I really enjoyed working on this one and it only took an hour and a quarter.

WetCanvas WDE 3-2

I painted this from one of this weeks WDE photos just for a bit of fun. Is Acrylic on canvas 7" X 9"

WetCanvas WDE 3

For this weeks WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event, I chose this rose to draw. I thought doing it in pencil would be quick but it took 4 hrs to see this through this far! Its prismacolour on black paper. 7" x 10".

WetCanvas WDE 2

This is an acrylic painting I created based on a photo provided by the WDE hostess this week. I had several attempts at this and I still need to do a little to this one. This is the first time I have used acrylics to do a painting. It is 9 x 11 in on canvas.

WetCanvas WDE 1

This is what I came up with for the First WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event that I participated in. It is a portrait of the hostesses father done in Prismacolor pencils on pastel paper. There is not much of a likeness but i enjoyed the exercise and the challenge of drawing another portrait.

Lanseer Dog - WIP

This is what I am working on at the moment. It is an oil copy of an Edwin Lanseer painting called "Dog looking out of a Kennel". This gorgeous little dog is an exercise in technique. I am not quite finished with it yet. It still needs a little work on the left eye. It isn't very big at 8" X 12' but has definitely been a challenge! I will post the finished product when its done!

Latest Work At Art class.

I have been attending a weekly art class in which I have been doing this oil painting. It is a copy of a painting by Harle brown (dont know the title). I had alot of trouble with the background. The size is 12" X 17". I am looking forward to painting my own stuff instead of copying other artists.

Yet another frog.

This is a colour pencil drawing of yet another frog. I drew this drawing from a photograph out of Australian Geographic Magazine (I think) . I used white acrylic for the highlights because I found it soooooo difficult to leave areas of white. I might make some changes to the leaf in the background, (picked up the wrong green...Doh!) perhaps I can put the same shade into the rest of the leaf without doing too much damage?? I must say it looks much prettier in the scan that it does for real! It is almost the size of an A3 page.

Here are all of the ATCs together. They are oil on canvas.

Actually I think this one is my favourite.

Painting Frogs again!

Oil Painting ATC. This is one of 5 oil Painted ATC frogs I recently completed. This one is my favourite, wonky eye and all.

Art Journalling Book 4.

These pages are from the 4th book I've worked in. The theme for this one was "Purple and Yellow"
I just love the way these worked and am so inspired from the pages that others have done in the books I recieve to work in.

Art Journalling - Book 3.

These are in the 3rd book I have worked on. I loved working in this book. The colour theme is Blue and ochres. The size and Layout of this impressed me so much I have bought a similar book in readiness for the next Art Journal round robin I join!!

Art Journalling Book 2.

The colour theme for this Art Journal is Jade and Amethyst. This is my second effort so far.

Art Journalling - Book 1.

I have been enjoying doing some art journalling. These are my first efforts in the round robin I joined. I had never done this type of art before and I really enjoyed the creativity. This is a Colours Round Robin and the colour for this book is green.

Painting Frogs

Its been a while since I posted here. I have been so busy doing craft, I haven't had alot of time for my art. My most recent is this oil painting on canvas I did from a photograph I found online. I can't remember exactly where. This painting is pretty small. Its only 150 x 210. I really like the way it turned out considering that apart from the 4 ATCs I did, this is the only other oil painting I've done and so far, its the largest, even thought its small!.

These are some more oil portrait atcs that I did. I think that I could get good at this if I keep practising!

Oil ATC 2.

This is my first try with oils paints. I decided to make some ATCs using oils. I found the paint too thick but have since found out I need to add some linseed oil to it. These are ok but I'm sure I can do better and Will do some more experimenting on ATCs before I move on to a full size painting.

This is my second Pencil drawing and the photo I drew it from. I can see that it need more dark colours in the ears. I need to learn to see the colours better. Its not too bad, It looks like Molly anyway.

This is my first colour pencil reproduction of a painting. I don't know who painted the original but My copy is about 12" x 12". It's not exactly the same. I found it hard to get the same depth of colour with the pencils as is in the original painting. I guess I could have kept going over and over with the different colours to get the shades darker but then I wouldn't have time to move on to my next project.!! I think this is a good try for a first largescale drawing.

This is a display of some Frog themed ATCs I have done in recent weeks. Some are watercolours and others are done using Sharpie textas. The sharpies are great because they are really quick but you just can't get the same kind of detail as you can get with other mediums. Watercolours are nice but a little unpredictable. I love to use them though. Colour pencils are great because you get colour, control and detail. I don't think any of these are pencil..No none. The other one on this blog is though and has lovely colour.

ATC I am a frog lover from childhood and have been collecting anything froggy for many years.