A Plate of Peppers

12 x 9 inches, watercolour, 2010.

A painting of a variety of the peppers I've grown this year. There are Poblana chili, , Red Cherry chili peppers, Cayenne chili peppers and sweet Ingrid bell peppers at the back.

A Baby Fairy

I drew this baby and then used my drawing to play and practice my illustration.

Daisies in Teacup

I've gotten so addicted to painting small close-up items - I love closely-cropped pieces, too. I hardly ever paint large pieces anymore. I just don't have enough time, because I work full-time. But someday.

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The Armada Portrait

20×25cm , watercolor, 2010.

A painting of Elizabeth I about the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. She cradles an English Galleon, and in the background rages a stormy sea.

Cassie and Mannie

8 x 10 inches, watercolor, 2010.

Every year the EBSQ have a Pet Portrait Swap - you pair up with another artist from the site and swap portraits of each other's pets. I haven't taken part for a couple of years but this year I agreed to swap with Tracey Allyn Greene as she is a big cat lover and I have the new kittens (and she does lovely work!). This painting is of two of her cats, Mannie and Cassie. They had been abandoned and were lucky enough to be found and later adopted by Tracey. I tried to convey how contented and happy they are to be with each other and with Tracey!

Lemons On Blue

8 x 10 inches, watercolor, 2010.

Lovely lemons on a blue background. I will include a step by step guide to how this was painted, as well as a look at stretching paper and mixing colour in my second CraftEDU class, coming soon!

Hedgehog

I've had this notion about painting Hedgehogs for awhile. It's not my normal subject, but I decided to give it a try. This one was my first, and I guess it's more of an illustration. I hope to develop the subject matter to make it more my usual style - more loose and watercolory. This painting is an aceo size, and is available in my Etsy shop.

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Showdown

Playing around on Wetcanvas this weekend. The reference was a vertical picture of a cat looking out of the photo so I had to put something in for the cat to look at. I also decided to open the unused bottle of masking fluid that's been sitting on my desk for a while to save the lattice so I could go at the background with some loose washes.   6 x 11 in.

Sunflower in a Glass

Still loving those sunflowers. They're so perfect for watercolor, and they let us use the fabulous new yellows that are on the market.

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GREEN VW BEETLE BUG

This painting is a tribute to an old friend, an earnest and eager companion when I was younger. I wish I had kept it, and I wonder where it is right now! I've painted many of these for fellow Bug lovers.

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Snapshot - Watercolor portrait

This watercolor portrait is of my daughter and I painted it on 11 x 14 Aqua board. (I wrote a little more about this surface on my personal blog.)

Sidewalk Artist

A wonderful photo reference from one of the hosts of the All Media Events forum on Wetcanvas.com last weekend. I didn't finish it in time to post it there so I'm sharing it here. ;)  8 x 10

Mary

8 x 10 inches, watercolor, 2010.

This portrait was painted for a competition being held by a photographer over on the deviantART website, where he has asked people to paint images from photographs in his gallery. I chose a photo of his wife, Mary.

You can see his gallery and the original photo here.

Yellow Pansies

Here's my version of yellow pansies that I planted in pots. Mark, your's are beautiful and I'll be yours will also live longer than mine. I don't think these little guys are going to make it much longer with all of the hot weather we've been having, but I'll do my best.

Pansies

8 x 10 inches, watercolor, 2010.

Pansies from my garden. They are such lovely, hardy little plants, and add colour to the garden all year round.

This is the Desert, there's only SOME water

Our challenge for May....yep, I'm two days late, but it's done! Water's hard to find here in Arizona!

Bronze cup full of Sun

Icelandic Poppy


All the sunshine in one place, caught in the cup of this poppy.

Rain again this afternoon...

Yellow Dutch Iris

After a 2-month absence from painting, due to a move to a new house, I've finally got my painting things unpacked enough to start painting again. Thank goodness. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't paint. I think I would become very strange. Anyway, I started with some small florals for a client. Love painting anything yellow cause it lets me use W&N Quin Gold!

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Terrific Tulips

11 x 8 inches, watercolor, 2010.

Pink triumph and pink, white and yellow lily-flowered tulips from the garden.

Living in the 'burbs

Suburban Life
Lots of houses all arranged in rows, life in a development in the suburbs.
Yet another venture into how I feel not what I see. I've lived in a development of cookie cutter homes and wondered if my key would work in any/all of the other houses.

Bearded Iris

7.5 x 10.5 inches, watercolor, 2010.

A lovely purple and yellow bearded iris.

Blueberries Watercolor ACEO

Every once in a while my brush gets a craving for berries!

Black Parrot Tulip

8.5 x 8.5 inches, watercolour, 2010.

Another variety of tulip from my garden, these dark and beautiful Black Parrot's are very striking.

wonderful things await...

City Living
It's a challenge.

No REALLY!

Take this little space and show what city living is all about :D