Day 27 of 30 Paintings in 30 days - A little sketch of a European crested tit - watercolor on watercolor sketchbook (12x9 inches). It is also the bird of the week for the Facebook group "Paint Colorful Birds for Fun."
European crested tit - watercolor on watercolor sketchbook (12x9 inches)
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 - 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: 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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)
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
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 (yesterday had no internet service) - Sunset - oil pastel on gessoed watercolor paper (15x11 inches)
Sunset - oil pastels on gessoed watercolor paper (15x11 inches)
So I went with another portrait again. This time it is a Native American girl from the wetcanvas Reference Image Library. It is in oil pastels on Canson Mi-Teintes at 9x11 inches. Drawing her garment, headpiece and jewelry was great! Those skintones were kind of difficult but even more difficult to photograph it. My camera takes very yellow and saturated indoor pictures so I have to do some editing in Photoshop to get a decent picture. The white highlights aren't as stark in real life, that's for sure.
This one took me about 5-6 hours to complete. I'm not sure I can keep with daily paintings if they take this long, so I may just do a simpler one one day and a more complex one the next day.
Native American girl - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes (9x11 inches)