Canyon Sunset

Now I've moved on to some amount of complexity. Complexity of color and shape but still very little in the way of detail, except for what might bee viewed as a window or doorway.

Watercolor once again in a Lama Li watercolor journal.

Desert Flowers

Here's a little watercolor painting once again based on simplicity, only the barest essentials are there sky, the outline of distant mountains and fields of color indicating flowers.

Out to Sea

Another painting about simplicity, this week's Illustration Friday topic. A very simple watercolor sketch featuring water, sky and sun, no detail just simple color fields. This series of paintings are small, I used a jewel case as a template for the format to give you an idea of the size.

Illustration Friday-Simplicity

This week's topic for Illustration Friday is the concept of simplicity. Being a landscape painter always requires one to simplify the great complexity of nature that is before our eyes. Here I created a landscape from imagination that is extremely simplified, and analogous color scheme and a very simple division of space with no detail whatsoever, just the suggestion of water, land and sky the three essential elements of landsape painting.

Japanese Doll Poses

I used this Japanese doll as a model, as if this were a life drawing session with a live model. I spent no more than 10 minutes on each "pose".

Graphite and walnut ink/brush

Maggie in the Sun

Here's Maggie taking a snooze in the sun, the only time she's really still enough to draw. Even now napping in the window she still has one eye and one ear tuned into what's going on outside so she won't be asleep for long. At the merest hint of a squirrel or worse yet a cat anywhere near her yard she'll but up in a flash growling, barking and carrying on LOL!

sepia pen in a canson sketchbook, cream paper

Blooming Amaryllis

Well after many weeks of waiting the amaryllis has finally bloomed!! It is beautiful and RED ! All these lily-type flowers are challenging to draw, especially when their petals fold backwards. So after some fiddling with a pencil drawing I used a kneaded eraser to pick up most of the graphite and leave just a "ghost image' so the pencil wouldn't muddy up the watercolor. I'm especially pleases with the richness of the reds here. I mixed them up with varying amounts of vermillion, carmine, burnt sienna and yellow.