Physalis

8 x 11 inches, watercolor, 2009.

A painting of Physalis or Cape Gooseberries, as they are also known. They look like little orange tomatoes enclosed in a papery cage and taste as sweet as strawberries.

Satsumas

7 x 10 inches, watercolor, 2009.

I love satsumas and gobble loads of them at this time of year. I especially like them when they are a touch green and still a bit sour.

Poinsettia

7 x 7.5 inches, watercolor, 2009.

A painting of a poinsettia, the plant that finds a place in so many homes over Christmas. There is a mistaken belief that they are poisonous.

Three Bell Peppers

8 x 10 inches, watercolor, 2009.

Three bell peppers on a blue background.

Painted for this months WNW 7 x 11 x 3 challenge - to paint a painting of a size with the shorter dimension no less than 7" and the longer dimension no greater than 11", with a three hours time limit to paint it.

Before the Fall

Autumn in the Pacific NW brings a wonder of gold and yellow to the trees that shed their leaves. Just touches of orange and brown for contrast. This is a glimpse Before the Fall.

For the first time, I painted on a totally blank piece of paper. No drawing at all, not even a horizon line. After getting past the fear...it was fun! Done completely by the picture in my head and the colors outside my window with a little help from my brushes.

Missing from picture, one very annoying squirrel!

PINE CONE

I've always loved pine cones. In my home state of South Carolina, they are everywhere. I love to walk thru the pine needles, and listen to the crunching needles under my feet, and look for perfect pine cones. Every one is a little individual.

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Candles & Flames

Today I had to take a break from landscapes and needed to do something a little different. So I came up with these candles. And they took way longer than I thought they would. Those flames are tricky for me. ;-)
ACEO 2.5 x 3.5
Elaine Originals
J. Elaine Hays

WNW Master Challenge: Pissarro

My version of "Road at Eragny - Winter" in response to this months challenge at Watercolors WNW.

4x5 inches, watercolor on kilimanjaro

Sweet Peppers

10 x 7.5 inches, watercolor, 2009.

A still life of some red pointed sweet peppers and orange sweetbite peppers.

WnW Master Challenge: Pissarro

5 x 7 inches, watercolor, 2009.

A rendition of Camille Pissarro's "Cafe Au Lait" painted for the WnW Watercolor groups Master Challenge for October.

Calendars!

Calendars for 2010 are now available from Redbubble!

Floral Watercolours

Doctor Who

Ladies Only


The Tudor, Male Art, Fantasy and Mythology calendars are also still available from Redbubble.

White Dahlia

6.5 x 7.5 inches, watercolor, 2009.

A lovely white sunlit dahlia, again from the RHS Gardens at Wisley, Surrey.

Cactus Dahlia II

6.5 x 7 inches, watercolor, 2009.

Sadly this lovely cactus dahlia isn't from my garden - it's from the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens at Wisley, where I visited last weekend.

Bubble Fairy

"Bubble Fairy"

5x7 watercolor and gouache on illustration board.

Green Peppers

8 x 10.5 inches, watercolor, 2009.

These lovely, shiny green peppers were also part of this year's homegrown pepper crop.

Three Squash

8 x 10.5 inches, watercolor, 2009.

These are three of the squash we grew this summer. We hadn't grown squash before so we were curious to see how it turned out. Sadly it wasn't good - the fruits were very bitter and nasty to taste (and very poisonous if eaten). It's not clear why this happened but at least they looked nice enough to paint!

Yellow Chilli Peppers

5 x 7 inches, watercolor, 2009.

Another painting of some produce grown at home. I love chillis and spicy foods, and this year grew a variety of chillies of diferent strengths in the greenhouse - these are quite mild but still pack a nice warm punch.

Annika

Annika, 16 x 16

Our group is back to painting from the model on a regular basis. What fun!

Homegrown Tomatoes

10 x 7 inches, watercolour, 2009.

A painting of some of the tomato crop from this year - so red and juicy I couldn't resist painting them.

The Good Witch and the Naughty Cat

HALLOWEEN is arriving.

The Good Witch and the Naughty Cat
- ACEO - 2,5 x 3,5 inches

This one was made after an attempt to follow an Anime lesson in a new book I've bought.
I don't love all kind of anime, but find that it's a very good way to learn to draw the faces expressions, I hope to go give some more try.

Aquilegia

6.5 x 7 inches, watercolor, 2009.

A white and yellow aquilegia (or columbine) flower.

TOY #1

ACEO 3,5 x 2,5 inches
Watercolor on Arches 140lbs paper, painted with Artist Winsor & Newton paints.

Watercolor of one of my son toys. They're growing and don't play anymore with them, before beeing dismiss in a box in our garage, I want to give a last chance of glory, in hope that one day someone will ask to play again.

Pansy III

6.5 x 7 inches, watercolor, 2009.

A third pansy painting, a lovely blue specimen.

Pansy II

6.5 x 7 inches, watercolor, 2009.

A second pansy painting.