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

"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"

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

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

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

"Goosey Loosey"

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

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

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

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

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