From cows to elephants

Last week I have been sketching and painting cows. But then I thought of all the photo's I took during a vacation in South Africa. Photo's of wildlife and of lots of elephants. I took one photo of two elephants playing and pushing each other. I cropped the original photo and created several paintings. I like all al them, but I love how the last one turned out, with the addition of watercolors and the details with pen.

31 x 41 cm / 12" x 16" with black Tombow (ink)

31 x 41 cm / 12" x 16" with black Tombow (ink)

36 x 48 cm / 14" x 19" with black Tombow (ink), watercolors and ink

Painting with watercolors and inks

Today I have been painting with watercolors and alcohol inks. This watercolor is painted using a reference photo posted by Ann Bentley on Paint My Photo http://paintmyphoto.ning.com/photo/cherries1-1. I am also painting this image with alcohol inks. I will show you the result when I am done.

With alcohol inks I painted an image I took when I was in South Africa a few years ago. My sister and I visited Addo Elephant Park and had an amazing day. We spotted so many elephants, zebra's and many other animals. The size of the painting is 11 3/4" x 8 1/4" (A4 - 20 x 30 cm).