One of my favorite aunt’s 97th birthday is coming up this week. I thought that I’d try to paint a mini-portrait of her dog, Casey who passed away a few years ago. He was a cutie-pie! I’ll let ya know what she thinks of it, -Rose
I painted this cute little deer, and here are the steps I used: I started by drawing in pencil on my watercolor paper, getting as detailed as possible. And then I taped my paper to my Art Board, and began by putting in some background color. I add more background color, using the wet on…
I have been attempting to paint a small watercolor painting each day, and I started one yesterday…but never had a chance to finish it. Well, here it is today. One little thing that I have been learning is, when you are painting especially with watercolors, there always seems to be an awkward place in the…
My daughter sent me a photo of a peacock near her house. I thought that I might try to paint him. It’s really difficult to see many details in this photo, even after lightening it up. So I took a piece and had a little fun painting. I used my imagination as much as my…
We visited with a lot of family the past couple of weeks. Here’s a fun little palm tree that I painted…pretty much step-by-step. I started by drawing the beach, water & a palm tree very lightly on some watercolor paper. After taping the paper to a board, I added some water and then put some…
I had a little fun this weekend doing a cute flower illustration for a friend. I blurred the names here, but each family member has a birth flower and their name written on each stem. When you look around on ETSY, it’s a popular gift item right now. A whole bunch of artists are doing this.…
Remember when we talked about my mini-sketch-kit? Here’s a link to that post if you missed it. I was away this past week enjoying a quiet mountain getaway with my Honey. We had a peaceful and quiet time. And although I did paint and sketch a little while I was there, I did not finish…
Yesterday we talked about setting up your Traveling-Mini-Sketch-Kit. Make sure you read the whole article because there are lots of ways to get around buying expensive materials. (and if you have more suggestions tell us: [email protected]) But, buying the best that you can at the moment helps! The reason that I suggest carrying only the…
Hi there! I hope that life is getting better for you with the nice weather moving in. Along with the warmer weather, and being out and about. Sometimes you just need to have a way to draw something that you see that inspires you! I wanted to tell you how I build my mini-sketch…
Many years ago, I bought this life-sized leopard statue for my Mom to paint. It is an extremely heavy and quite beautiful sculpture. I really wanted to paint it myself, but I thought that maybe she’d like to paint it…this was in 1975 when…