Indian Dancer

 

Watercolor. Copied and enlarged from a photograph for a class project with my students.

Calligraphy Cards II

 

A couple more cards I made, with capitals courtesy of The Illuminated Letters Sketchbook, by Jane Sullivan. Wally and Serif are the cats featured on the thank you card. The mice are anonymice. Dip pen and watercolors.

Calligraphy Cards

An assortment of cards I’ve made for various people over the last year or so. Dip pen and watercolors.

Tandava

 

Everyone has a cubby in our classroom, including me. The kids do an art project to make their name signs for their own cubbies, and they informed me that I needed to make a proper sign for mine as well. India ink and dip pen, with watercolor. 

Gnomes for Guy

 

A Christmas card for Guy. Pentel brush pen, water colors, and gel pens. 

Nebula Christmas Cards

My Christmas cards for this year. Each is 3"x4" in watercolor. This wasn’t all of them, but most.

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.

Purple Rose

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

Koi

Trying some negative space painting.

Lion

Watercolor, from a reference photograph. Guy requested a lion.

Parrot

Pen & watercolor, from a reference photograph.

Frog

Pen & watercolor, from a reference photograph.

Butterfly

Pen & watercolor, from a YouTube tutorial by Peter Sheeler.

Seahorse

Watercolors, from a YouTube tutorial by Art ala Carte.