All we have to decide...

I painted a quote from Tolkien:

It's actually bigger, and Tolkien is credited at the bottom, but our scanner cut that off. :/

I used a resist method to get the white words; you write the words in masking fluid, then watercolor over it. When it's dry, you peel off the masking fluid, and your words are perfectly masked!

:)

the grey havens

Another watercolor, this time of the grey havens from Lord of the Rings.

Sadly, I still haven't figured out why the color of my pictures change when uploaded to blogger. :/

Needless to say, it looks very different in real life.

Fancy that! A third post within a week...

birds & more birds

Hey, I am back! And here are a couple bird paintings to reward your checking of my blog! 

:)

Sadly, they are basically copies of another artist's work. I loved the paintings, so I made my own versions. Still, I decided they merited a blog post.

 A chickadee...

 

And a little cardinal family...

And there you have it! A second blog post that isn't months apart from the last.

:)

horses & flowers

Sorry it's been so long! Here's a watercolor I did a while ago...

And once again, I'll resolve to keep the blog updated more frequently. 

Not that it will happen...but we can always hope.

;)

late snow

Here's a painting I did over Christmas break, which I totally forgot about! 

I really liked how it turned out, however, so I'm posting it, despite it being spring already. 

:P

I used masking fluid to mark out the snowflake, and then cling wrap and salt to get the texture behind the snowflake. Then I used lighter watercolor paints to give the snowflake it's faceted look.

cheetah

I've enjoyed some painting over spring break, and I came up with this cheetah:

It's a little different from what I normally paint, since I  actually covered the entire page! :) 

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Sorry the photo quality isn't the greatest...on the camera the pic looked fine, but on the computer I can see it's a bit blurry, and the color isn't as vivid as I would like. :/

peregrine falcon

I broke out the watercolors again a couple days ago, and came up with this:

(I'm not sure what's wrong with the picture... the coloring is all weird when I post it to Blogger...)