A Little Practice

Thought I would do a quick painting this morning.  This is what I came up with.  A cute little tree frog.

I guess I could do more to finish the painting, and I might go back and do more.  My intent for this was to get a quick painting done before starting work.  Since that is all this little guy is for, I'm totally happy with how he turned out.

I'm hoping to be able to do a few more 'before work' paintings in the future.

More of those pesky coneflower

 I actually meant to make a video about these.  I sat down and started painting last night, but the paper and I were feuding a little.  Or maybe it was the paint or the water.  I don't know but whatever it was, I wasn't feeling confident enough to make a video about these.  I am hoping that I'll feel it more tonight, but we'll see.

At any rate, I hope you like them.

Practice Agapanthus

This is an agapanthus.  We have them all over here in California.  I was asked to attempt to paint these.  This is a first attempt.  It's ok, i suppose, but it dind't quite turn out how I wanted.  I think my paper was too wet, and got too much run in my colors.  I'm gonna revisit this and see if I can't do something a bit better.

Practice Fruit

I had a little time on my hands during lunch, so I decided to sketch a few fruits.  Yes, red was the theme.  I gave myself two minutes a piece to paint each one.  I like the apple and the single cherry.  I really want o like the double cherry but the shadow i put on it kind of ruins it for me.  The tomato..... well, i think it went a little south.  lol.