Pink Flamingoes

Tulip

Looking at the Rockies

An amazing God created this

This is a beautiful and usual flower. They are rather common around South Florida but taking the time to draw and paint one made me appreciate them so much more. I looked it up on wikipedia and found this little bit of interesting information.

"They are pollinated by sunbirds, which use the spathe as a perch when visiting the flowers; the weight of the bird on the spathe opens it to release the pollen onto the bird's feet, which is then deposited on the next flower it visits."

Pretty cool, eh?

Yes, they are blue.

Acrylic paint is so fun! Whenever the "one shot at it" pressure of watercolor gets to you, get out the acrylics and just paint until you're happy. Blue buffalo grazing in a yellow field make me happy.

Cherries

This was a fun little exercise in trying to get "round" with shading and leaving some white for reflection.

Little Thatch Island Cottage

Wouldn't this be a nice place to go on a honeymoon?!!

Watercolor class #2... I really enjoy going to class, and I like the teacher, and I like watching her paint. [but] We painted this picture using a black and gray reference photo, and not a very clear copy at that. The teacher demonstrated how she would paint it but she used paints that we don't have on our palette. In a perfect world, this would be different! :)

first day...

I walked into my first watercolor class with my bag of supplies... brand new paints and brushes, and 3 hours later I walked out of the class with this. I'm giving myself permission to be happy with it.

The instructor was sitting at one end of the room and she remained in that chair for pretty much the entire 3 hour class. She called the class up to her desk and demonstrated a few steps. We crowded around, looked on, upside down, and then went back to our desks to "give it a shot". I'm giving myself permission to be "okay" with this.

We are supposed to "finish it" at home. Ummm..... how?