Catching Up

I haven't forgotten about all you avid Dabfly Arts readers.  I have been busy.  In the past week, I've worked overtime, held a garage sale, been across town about 14, flown to the moon and visited the rings of Saturn.  Let's just say I've been a bit busy.  Well, no matter, I'm back and putting up the pictures I should have been putting up all along.

The first painting is of course some apples still on a tree.  They must be getting ready to pick they are slowly turning red.  The second a Scrub Jay which we have in the western states.    They are actually really nice birds, not like those nasty Blue Jays.  Finally a simple painting of a Kingfisher.  Each of these now comes with a video showing how I made it. (Picture on left, video on right)  Take a look to see how I do it.  Thanks for the view.

final Heron and Egret

So that I could get outside and paint, I bought a little Van Gogh travel paint set. So that I wouldn't have to carry so much water with me I bought a water brush. I painted this picture with that combo. No drawing of the figures beforehand, just got the paints wet and started. I was really pleasantly surprised by the result.  Hope ou all enjoy it too.

Better one, or two, two or three

Three more attempts at the Heron and Egret theme.  I like bits and pieces of each.  Hope you all enjoy them.

Have we done this before?

Here we go again.  Trying to get a good Heron and Egret picture.  The hardes thing in this one is the HUGE amount of water.  It doesn't seem like it would be that tough but on a 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inch piece of paper, it just seems like an eternity of water.  I am hoping to do only one more of these and I am hoping that the water on my next one will be just a bit better.  I do like the stump that the egret is on, and I like the reeds in front of the Heron.  Perhaps on the next one, I'll push both of them back just a bit further into the picture.  BTW, you cant see the bottom inch of this picture because the paper size is larger than my scanner.