Portrait and pet

Top here is my middle boy who posed for us for art class this week. I am very proud of him for sitting so still for me, and I loved how I was able to capture his look in such a simple sketch.

Below here is Suko, her owners had to put her down recently because of cancer and she was no longer eating or drinking. I had the chance to meet this sweet cat before she passed and wanted to give her family a little gift to remember her by. 

A little sample of nightly works

I am loving watercolors lately. I am still learning how to work them and coloring with blues and oranges instead of grays. Top here is a picture of a rabbit I had when I was younger. Her name was Velvet and she had her own little personality, and I loved her.

 Art class time. This plant was sitting on the table so we drew then painted it. It is one of my favorites but it is for sale.

 A work in progress, love the colors I will be painting in this one.

Art class perspective of a pepper tree. Going to keep working on this one when I get the chance.
I have realized recently that I haven't developed a style still for my works. Photography I definitely have my own style but in painting and drawing I am missing something. It is eating away at me. I am trapped. I am not sure what to do next. Some serious soul searching must be done before I can become a professional artist.

Etsy shop

I opened up an Etsy shop, figured if my tiger drawing is so popular here that everyone was taking it I might as well sell good prints of it and get my moneys worth so I can afford to keep doing art. Head on over and see!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/PaintPencilandPhotos?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Flying

Getting used to watercolors. I am loving how this bird turned out.

Finished shell.

Added stipple and some background lines to this. I wanted it to be a little more whimsical and this is the result.

Fun Friday

 Another week for art class and today was eyes, next week will be faces, then bodies. She was hesitant at first to draw eyes but these pictures say that she was ready for them!

 This was her eye she copied onto black poster board with colored pencils.

 Here is mine, it was fun doing this exercise again.

 Remember this one from several months  ago? I finally finished it using a variety of things, charcoals, pastels and watercolors on top of the pencil. It turned out better than I had imagined and I am loving the symbols of it. What does it say to you? I won't tell you what it was drawn for until at least one person guesses.

Lastly another shell in watercolor. I will work on this one a little more with some colored inks on top of it just for fun. Experimenting with mixed media is always a little scary but the results are fun

This week in The Art Class

 Last night I couldn't sleep so I kept ruminating ideas for art class for the little kids and what would keep them interested. I came up with a desert scene collage. Top one here is my little Bruce's creation. And yes I know cactus don't grow in Egypt.

 This is Jack's. He came up with the pyramid idea on his own and put a mummy in there so naturally his brothers copied him.

 This is an assortment of flowers by Ri who I watched today, she's 3 and super cute!

 This is my youngest's creation, he's also 3 so this was more fun for him just trying to do like his brother's art, looking good.

 This was mine to show them how to start it all, the clouds are added courteously of Tommy.

 Here was my best student so far of the day. She's 15 and is progressing amazingly fast. This is the classic crumpled paper project just to get line and texture down with shadows.

 This one is from my angle and my drawing, it is fun going back to basics again.

 And we have a random apple with stripes. after this it was devoured by my 3 year old.

 Back to my star student, she kept adding more shading on it to bring out the crumples in the paper.

 Her's on top, mine on bottom.