Baby Sneaker 2 - With Shading

The shading worked out fine but I still really love the freshness of the first wash!

Baby Sneaker 1

Another in the shoe series for my online painting class. I had to scan this one before I added the shading because it looked so fresh that I wanted a record of it, in case I overworked the final version. Stay tuned for the shaded up edition.

I should also say, that this is a funky little shoe that the girls wore briefly as babies. If I remember correctly, these sneakers were cuter than they were comfortable, so they never got much traction from the girls…..sorry, pardon the pun.

Groovy Shoe

One Big Boot!

Jane Lafazio's next lesson was footwear. The assignment was to draw a shoe or boot using a water soluble pen. Here is Brigit's cowboy boot.

Erica's Collection: The Sequel

I am still trying capture flowers in 3D. I enjoyed doing the topo lines around the painting and having fun with a watery, colourful background. And don't forget the splatters!

Bouquet Flowers

Erica's Collection

As she walks home from university, Erica collect things for me to paint; this week cotoneaster berries and a big fat rose hip. The pelargoniums are still going strong in the window boxes, so I threw one of those in to compliment the red theme. And the hydrangeas? Well they speak for themselves.

Orchid Contours

Another exercise, this time doing contour drawings of orchids. I have to admit, I did lift my pen off from time to time. But heck. It's my page so I can do what I like. These orchids were the most odd and beautiful shades of yellow, gold and orange with touches of red. They were a gift from my mom and dad during a recent visit. All of my live orchids were afflicted with a strange white mould last year and slowly died off. This new batch of cut orchids inspired me to go out and start my live collection again. I picked up a rescue orchid at the local hardware big box store. It was marked down to a very low price but still had several buds yet to open. Score.

Lemon Fresh

This was part of a lesson from Jane Lafazio's online class. I should have made more of a page of it but the lemon looked so bright and fresh that I could not bring myself to mess with it. And so, the lonely lemon.