More cows....

I really fell in love with these cows, I did another sketch with a black and blue Tombow in my A4 Moleskine watercolor journal.

And Bonnie Sitter sent me some more cow (and sheep) pictures. This is Lady 574, grazing in between the wildflowers. Love her!

A4 format, on quality Arches watercolor paper

A3 format, on quality Arches watercolor paper

Both cow paintings/drawings are for sale. Please contact me if you are interested.

More ATC's for the Animal ATC project

The ATC's that I painted for the Animal ATC project on WetCanvas are starting to arrive. Almost half of them have reached their final destination. Hopefully all of them will arrive safely, it is taking a long time...

Cow for Marilou (reference from PaintMyPhoto)

Dizzy for Jeanne

Penny for Jeanne

Sea otter for Bonnie

Sheep for Nancy (reference from PaintMyPhoto)

New pastel painting of chickens

During the Christmas vacation I finally found some time to work with pastel pencils and made this drawing / painting of a reference from an older WDE challenge on Wetcanvas. The size is 10" x 12" on light grey pastel paper.

Painting in the Paint-a-thon on atcsforall

This weekend there is a Paint a thon on www.atcsforall.com and I am painting ATC's. From penguins to San Francisco to trees.

Mixed media collage

I have just added a new original Mixed Media collage in my Etsy shop. The collage is created with different kinds of papers, ink, postage stamps and a lovely image of a blue bird. The collage is 12 x 12 cms in size (4 3/4" x 4 3/4") and fits perfectly in a lovely frame. I bought some Ribba frames at Ikea to show off how the collage looks when framed. What a difference a frame makes!

Here is the link to the item in my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/162966745/blue-bird-an-original-mixed-media.

 

New ATC's

I have been hosting the Dragonflies swap on ATCsforall.com. The due date is September 21 and I always sent out a reminder to the participants a month before the due date. But this time.... I didn't even finish my own ATC's.. Bad girl! I did one earlier and finally did the other two today.

Blossoms in watercolor and some ATC's

 

This weekend I am playing in the Labor Day all art a thon at www.atcsforall.com. A full weekend creating with friends all over the world and lots of trading of course. So far I made 4 ATC's, I will show you two. One done in pen and watercolors, using a reference image from WetCanvas. And one mixed media collage.

 

 

 

And I have been painting with watercolors in my Moleskine watercolor journal (A4). This is a painting of a reference image in the Florals forum on WetCanvas (challenge for the month August).

More alcohol ink paintings

I just love working with alcohol inks! I am discovering more techniques and learning more about the inks and how they behave (or not...). Both paintings are done on A4 size (8 1/4" x 11 3/4") Yupo paper with Ranger alcohol inks and Promarkers for the details. Both are for sale in my Etsy shop (shopname is Kitty69).

WetCanvas challenge

On the WetCanvas forum there are a lot of challenges each month. This month I decided to participate in the challenge in the Animal and Wildlife forum. I chose one of the reference pictures and did 2 paintings, in 2 differente media. The first one was in watercolors in my Watercolor journal (I already showed you this one in another post) and today I finished the second one, done in alcohol inks. The swans were masked, then I 'flowed' the background. Rubbed of the masking and then 'painted' the swans with ink, alcohol and markers. I love how they both turned out.

 

Watercolor paintings in my journal

I have been painting all weekend! In between sitting outside in the warm sunshine I have painted 2 watercolors in my Moleskin watercolor journal 11 1/2" x 8 1/2". The painting with the swans is for the challenge in of of the forums on WetCanvas and the water lily is for me ;-). I am also painting the swans in alcohol inks. The reference of the water lily was a picture I took of the water lilies in the pond in Mission San Juan Capristrano in California last May.

This Weekends Drawing Event

I just love the WDE (Weekend Drawing Event) on WetCanvas. Every week (on Friday) someone posts 16 images and you can choose one (or more) to paint, draw, in every medium you like. Then you post your result to the thread. This week the image of the geese is very popular. I chose this image as well, making a quick pen and watercolor sketch in my Moleskine Watercolor Journal.