Sunday 22 October 2017

A baby Elephant in pen & ink

This dear little baby elephant with all his baby wrinkles just needed to be drawn in pen and ink. They are so sweet and vulnerable these tiny babies elephants!

I washed him in watercolor then added  water-soluble pen work to his wrinkles.  I then  washed over the pen again, to  make the blue color you see here.  I was quite pleased with the way he turned out.
This was painted for the Wet Canvas Animal & Wildlife, September Challenge




Sunday 27 August 2017

"Swan" in Watercolor painted for the Wet Canvas Animal & Wildlife August Challenge;



"Foxgloves" in Watercolor & Inktense Pencils, painted  for the Wet Canvas Floral Forum's August Challenge which was "Foxgloves"


Wednesday 7 June 2017

Mountain Granduer

The Mountains around Arrowtown New Zealand.

PanPastels on Colorfix dark-blue sanded paper

This was painted for the PaintMyPhoto Pastel Group's "Mountains" Challenge


Thursday 25 May 2017

Flowers & a Camel

A Camel painted in PanPastels and some pen & Ink added.
I thought I'd like to try the combination of mediums, and it worked quite well.
The Camel was painted for Wet Canvas, Animal & Wildlife May Challenge




Calla Lilies in watercolor and Inktense pencils.  I loved the bright pink color of these lilies.
This painting was painted for the Wet Canvas Floral Forum's May 2017 Challenge


Monday 15 May 2017

Watercolour & pen painting

A watercolour and pen painting.  I haven't used pens with watercolor for a very long time, so discovered that most of my pens had dried up except one, which turned out to be water-soluble!  So I had fun trying to mop up the blurrs and runs into my watercolor!  But now I've got used to this pen, I might try more watercolor & pen paintings with it, as it's quite fun.


Bright tulip

A tulip done for the "Bright Flower Challenge" for the PaintMyPhoto Website.

This was rendered in PanPastels and soft pastels.





Red Mushrooms painted for the "Loose Watercolor Group"

I tried to paint very loosely with watercolor for this challenge

Watercolour of tulips in a vase

This was a watercolour and Inktense pencils of a bunch of tulips in a vase.  I often use  Inktense pencils with watercolour to give some texture to my watercolor paintings




Sunday 19 March 2017

"Goosey Loosey"

This is a PanPastel and some pastel pencil added for details.
Painted for the Wet Canvas Animal & Wildlife Forum March Challenge




Saturday 11 March 2017

This watercolor was painted for the PaintMyPhoto Website - Floral Group's Monthly Challenge "Eath Colors" - which it won.

It was one watercolor which went well right from the start - that doesn't happen for me very often.  My watercolors seem to have a mind of their own!

Watercolor on Bockingford watercolor paper


New Zealand Tuatara - painted for the PMP Jan/Feb Animal & Wildlife Art Challenge
PanPastels, soft pastels and pastel pencils.





This is Boxer "Roxy" painted for the Wet Canvas March Watermedia Challenge.
Watercolor, and Inktense Pencils on Langton watercolor paper


Friday 3 March 2017

Watercolor painting of an Amaryllis painted for the Wet Canvas Floral Forum's Plant Parade February Challenge.



Tuesday 31 January 2017

Painted for the PaintMyPhoto Cat Art Group - Feb/Mar Challenge

PanPastels and Pastel Pencils on Mi-Teintes paper


This was painted for the Wet Canvas, Animal & Wildlife January Challenge

PanPastels on black Mi-Teintes Paper


Wednesday 18 January 2017

This was completed using PanPastels on Mi-Teintes paper.
I wanted to see how much of the pastel painting I could do using just Pans, and was able to complete most of it.  I added a little pastel pencil to strengthen the edges of some of the  rose petals, as I was finishing the painting.  Quite pleased with the way it turned out.




PanPastels on blue Mi-Teintes paper


My Christmas Card for Christmas 2016

Pastel painting,  berries with a digi border