today's painting. the anatomy is poor and it didnt quite fit on my scanner, but here it is...

this painting is made of epic fail when it comes to the shading. i blame this partly on my lack of lighting knowledge and partly on the fact that id never used hotpress watercolor paper before, so i didnt realize how unfriendly it is toward blending layers of color.

size is about 8x10, slightly larger than i usually work... took probably, i dunno, two hours or so. ive given up timing paintings since im usually distracted by tv or AIM or whatnot while painting.

quickish watercolor i did the other day... i got up at the crack of dawn because i was told the water was being turned off to redo the bathroom at 7am sharp... needless to say, of course i didnt have to leave the house until 10:30 that day (and the guy still hadnt shown up by that time) so i had a few hours to kill. wanted to play around with keeping the background simple and fairly similar in color, but without being monotone. i like the way the trees turned out, especially the yellow one.

i guess the rabbit aint bad, either, but the shading is a bit wonky. oh well...

olivia and i went to the zoo and sketched giraffes and koalas. then we came home and painted our doodles. yay doodles.

and she did a very cruel thing and let me use her much nicer watercolors - so of course now i want them. le sigh.