David and Keslie Smith

So here's a fun one: a progression! This is a painting from start to finish. It was a gift for a couple who's wedding I coordinated last year, but they didn't get it till this week. ☺ It began with this excellent photo by Sam Ramsey (who kindly conspired with me) and went from there. I'm most happy with it because I drew the whole thing by eye.Masked, with a background wash.

That foot was a favorite. ☺

Mary's Corner

So tonight I drove home through the dark and the rain and the wind to arrive home at 6:00... or it would have been 6:00 if someone hadn't been driving an average of 27 mph on a 40 mph road in front of me. But it was okay because I figured God had a reason for me to go slowly, and even if I never find out what it is, it gave me a chance to study tail light patterns on the wet pavement. And then stop light patterns. That's what this is: from memory, Mary's Corner (looking south) on a dark and stormy night.I think this turned out to be a light-weight mat-board and not watercolor paper, but it worked. It's also fun to use black-- watercolorists aren't supposed to use black. But on this occasion I could come up with no better way to get the point across.

I could do this everyday....

I did a dragon for Elisabeth. Here is it:

Addiction Part 2

And here's another. Like I said, there's always an island... (This one has ruins.)

Addiction

So I had some fun this morning when I should have been getting ready for work:

Found a sketching program on http://sketch.odopod.com/ thanks to Kati Barker, and I will shortly be addicted. Knock yourselves out!

Bookend Sketches

Two recent (and unfinished) doodles. One, a paisley pattern gone epic. I started with the classic shape, asked "What if?" and pretty much abandoned classic. Can you find Rainier, and the ship?
Two, a castle on an island in front of a Maxfield Parish sky. There is always a castle on an island in my mind.This makes me think of Guliver's Travels, and The Fisherman's Wife, and of days spent in the Red Books when I was a child. When I look at this sketch I want to dip my hands into the pictures and scoop the island right out of the sea and inspect it very closely. Grr.

Coy

So this is not "what I've been doing lately", but after a year of having it on the board I finally decided to quit and got it scanned. I may work in a few water ripples later and repost it, but we'll see. Today, I'm just glad to be able to bring you..................
COY!