NEW FLORAL PRINT

Really like the way this pink & white pastel came out. I posted it on ETSY, for sale,  as a 8x10 print. It would look good in any room.

FRESH BOUQUET

Variations on one theme, bouquet from last week.

Messy pastel, the shape of the pastel stick makes it easy to form the shape of the round Ranunculus.

oil sketch

Digital tricks with photoshop layers: flower fairy & butterfly came from my archive.

NATURE INSPIRED

We have a day of snow on the first day of spring, last weekend. A deer wander into my view. ..

I kind of like my little sketch of the deer.

Wind up spending the day doodling with swirls & winter vines. This might be my last winter design for awhile.

SNOWY WALK

My boots crunchingon bright fields… the branches form a blue lattice printed sharply on the snow.

WINTER'S NIGHT

Another winter night, the mountain enters a deep stillness… it feels like living inside a painting.

STORMY NOCTURNE

The cold keeps me indoor with my paints. Different artist influenced me in different ways. For nocturnes, I refer back to artist like George Innes & Whistler. Always studying their use of pictorial space & color sensibilities.

SAME SEX VALENTINE

With a little time & focus, a new design can happen pretty fast … it's officially a same sex holiday greeting on GCU!  

VALENTINE GREETING

old fashion watercolor & a little digital help

I could use fonts from PS, but hand written calligraphy makes anything special… tried many variations before I scan it into PS.

a little manipulation with my calligraphy