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.

tooling around with white pencil on brown paper - in this case a paper bag, hence the wrinkled scan. this is not a good example of giraffe anatomy, but i couldnt really be bothered to get it right, since mostly i just wanted to play with the white pencil. maybe i'll do better next time...

im in a silly mood. the question is, does this count as Fowl Play?

exhaustian and watercolor are not really things that should be mixed, im thinking. this is not impressive at all in any technical sense, but its got me giggling and only took about 40 minutes. i amuse me. makes me think i need to spend less time flipping through Ursula Vernon's galleries, though...