Day 26 - Golden-breasted starling - quick sketch on my watercolor sketchbook
Golden-breasted starling - Watercolor on watercolor paper (9x12 inch sketchbook)
Day 25 of 30 Paintings in 30 days
Day 25 of 30 Paintings in 30 days - A quick watercolor sketch of a Puertorican parrot - on my sketchbook...long, busy day so I'm exhausted and did something quick...but at least I kept up with the challenge...
Pardon the bad photo--corners are cream, not pink in real life
Puertorican parrot - Watercolor on watercolor paper (9x12 inches)
Day 24 of 30 Paintings in 30 days
Day 24 of 30 Paintings in 30 days: Seren - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x11 inches). Note: skintones are more pinkish in real life painting.
Seren is the gorgeous daughter of Sharon Whitley, a fellow PMP artist. Sharon, sorry that I made her look older in this pic. It's all due to the eyes being higher on the face (always my problem). She's a gorgeous girl!
I must confess....I'm running out of steam with this challenge...I usually have a painting or two in sketch stage when the weekend comes so I can get the painting done (due to my limited time on weekends)...not this time...so, we'll see what we come up with....Worse case scenario I present you one of the oil pastel resist + watercolor paintings I did with my girls a few days ago...
Seren - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes (9x11 inches)
Day 23 of 30 Paintings in 30 days
Day 23 of 30 Paintings in 30 days - Lonely boat - watercolor on watercolor paper (11x15 inches)
I was more 'in the mood' for this one yet I'm not satisfied with how it turned out -- too overworked and boat perspective is a little off...Next...
Perhaps a square crop would help (getting rid of about 1/3 of the bottom part)
Lonely boat - watercolor on watercolor paper (11x15 inches)
Day 22 of 30 Paintings in 30 days
Day 22 of 30 Paintings in 30 days - Colorful Boats - watercolor on watercolor paper (15x11 inches) based on PMP reference photo.
I pushed myself to paint this one because it was one of those days in which I had no motivation/mood to paint at all...
Colorful Boats - watercolor on watercolor paper (15x11 inches)
Day 21 of 30 Paintings in 30 days
Day 21 of 30 Paintings in 30 days - Great Blue Heron - oil pastels (OPs) on watercolor paper (11x15 inches). Reference image again from PMP.
This started as a watercolor and quickly turned to mud so I put OPs on top...and I like how it turned out...
I swear my best OP paintings are salvaged failed watercolors...
and my best watercolors are those I make as OP underpaintings (cause they're loose and simple)...
Great Blue Heron - oil pastel on watercolor paper (11x15 inches)
Day 20 of 30 Paintings in 30 days
Day 20 of 30 Paintings in 30 days - Spanish senorita (final) - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
Had trouble photographing this one...still doesn't capture all the right colors.
Reference photograph is from wetcanvas' Reference Image Library.
Spanish senorita - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
Day 19 of 30 Paintings in 30 days
So here is today's painting: A little girl watching TV - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches).
I think the painting looks better if I crop about an inch or two off the top.
Note to self: Don't use a dark paper to paint a light complexion. So hard to cover with the OPs.
Almost didn't finish this one in time! Uff!
Little girl watching TV - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
Possible crop
Day 18 of 30 Paintings in 30 days
Here is another portrait. This is "Patty Shines" in oil pastels on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches). From a photo in PMP.
Patty Shines - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
Day 17 of 30 Paintings in 30 days
Day 17 of 30 Paintings in 30 days (yesterday had no internet service) - Sunset - oil pastel on gessoed watercolor paper (15x11 inches)
Sunset - oil pastels on gessoed watercolor paper (15x11 inches)