watercolor doodles

couple of quick watercolors i did last night. these are all on the same 9x12 page, so they're not that big... they're posted in the order i painted them, none took more than 15 minutes or so (though that's a rough guess, since i was watching tv while painting and taking long pauses to be horrified at what the host of Bizarre Foods was eating.)

looking at these simple doodles and the amount of time invested to get them even to this level shows me just how hard a month of not painting hits me. i ought to make painting something on a weekly basis some kind of newyears challenge.

i demand more snakes!

i figured i should finally finish this, since its been on my clipboard for a month now.

4x4ish quick painting. id say maybe 25-35 minutes tops but its hard to tell cause it was done over an hour while chatting online and wandering around the internets.

spawned from a discussion over lunch yesterday of my hatred of drawing bowls of fruit and house plants, which i usually dismiss as useless in the overall scheme of drawing practice.

but just to show i can...

an excuse to use white pencil and draw boobies. the shading on the face is wonky, but this was about 90% done while on the bus and/or trolley on the way to and from work. i blame the bumpy ride for my lack of shading knowledge.

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...