Manzanita II

My favorite manzanita tree from my last trip. I didn’t work up the nerve to draw it when I was there, and the photograph unfortunately turn out to be difficult to draw from. I’d love to keep drawing manzanita trees, though, until I can finally do them justice. Pigma micron pen again, with actual watercolors this time.

Blue Owl

Another one that showed up in meditation.

Oil Lamp

Watercolor from an image that came to me in meditation.

Lighthouse

Copied from an example picture in Watercolor: Painting Smart, by Al Stine.

Manzanita

Sketch of the manzanita tree behind my cabin at the Ananda Meditation Retreat. Done with a pigma micron pen and Albrecht-Durer watercolor pencils.

Purple Rose

A watercolor from one of Chidambar’s many glorious rose photos.

Koi

Trying some negative space painting.

The Giraffe

Another digital painting, again from one of last year’s poems. Though a completely different style this time, obviously. In a pleasant bit of irony, the font used here is called “The Happy Giraffe.”

Wacom Intuos tablet and ArtRage 4.5.

The Owl

Last year I wrote a bunch of animal poems for NaPoWriMo, with the intention of eventually illustrating them and maybe even making a book. Life got crazy and sidetracked that project for a while, but here’s one of them, finally.

Wacom Intuos tablet and ArtRage 4.5.

Ananda Moyi Ma

Ananda Moyi Ma, painted from a photograph. This is my first piece done entirely digitally, start to finish, using a Wacom Intuos tablet and ArtRage 4.5. Probably not the easiest picture to start learning with, but I'd had this in mind to paint for a while, so there we go. Working with a tablet and software takes at least as much getting used to as any traditional media, but it's starting to be fun as I get the hang of it.