Pear on a Branch-

This is a watercolor painting and watercolor pencil drawing that I did for the new Paint and Draw Together website. It is a great motivator, to paint from the same photo with other artists from all around the world. They then get to comment on your artwork as you can also comment on theirs.
5x7 $100

Tea Toodles

This is for the Paint and Draw Together Challenge.

6" x 9" $100

Henri Horace Roland de la Porte ala Me

This was from the Paint and Draw Challenge where we were asked to copy a master's work as an exercise.

May I just say it is definitely a challenge! Maybe it's my poor eye sight or maybe I just lack the patience to paint the basket so realistically as the original. I have an added respect for those artists of old. 
9" x 12" -$200

Everyday Breakfast

This was submitted to The DPW Painting Challenge. We were all asked to paint our breakfast. Not literally of course, I mean we were asked to paint a painting of what our breakfast looks like.
5.5" x 5.5"- $100

Tomatoes

Gosh, I haven't posted in so long! That doesn't mean I haven't painted it just means I was too embarrassed to post them. This one is for The Paint and Draw Challenge if you go to it you will see the original photograph and the submissions of other artists. We were supposed to have lost edges. It was a good exercise for me. Compare this to my bowl of fruit below and you will see more defined edges.  8" x 10" $100

I Break for Tea

This is this week's challenge for DPW we were supposed to paint our favorite mug. Since no photo was supplied I took my stuff outside into the sun and set up my own composition. I had never done that before! I enjoyed playing around with the objects. I then took a photo and printed it off and begun to paint. I LOVE tea and this is one of my favorites, Peachberry Jasmine Sutra which has a lovely color and smell. The big mug allows me to stick my face in it and smell it as well as taste it.
8" x 10" $ 100

I'm Sill in Love With You

This was for the DPW Challenge. The challenge was to get the values correct. We were given a black and white photo and told to paint it then check our own painting in black and white to see if we got it right. I think I got the values pretty close . 5" x 7" $ 100

Pitcher Picture

This is my submission for the Rookiepainter Challenge. The original photo showed all the pitchers lined up in a row. I decided, like some of the other artists, to change the composition. This is the first time I used the Masque pen. I need to work on either painting larger pictures or controlling the amount of fluid that comes out of the pen.  4.25" x 6" $50

Ahhh Beans !

This is in response to the Paint and Draw Together Blog Challenge hosted by Lela Stankovic who has been a wonderful virtual teacher to me . Not to say that I have mastered it by any means. I know I have a lot to learn and that is part of the fun. She challenged us by giving us a photo with nothing but a gray background and she asked us to use aerial perspective. I had no idea what this meant but she took time to explain it to me and gave me some examples. Now I at least know what it is and here is my attempt at it. N/A

Wine and Roses

This painting was done for yet another online painting challenge called A Day Not Wasted. It was the first watercolor that I have done for the ADNW and it is the first one I have done in my new Moleskin book and using a scanner instead of a camera. So it took a while just to figure out all these new things. But it was worth it. I loved the reference photo by Lee and all the other submissions are so beautiful.
5"x 8" $150

Summer Harvest

This is my painting for week 37-38 challenge for Different Strokes from Different Folks. I had fun doing it, although the onions almost made me cry. In the end I'm okay with them but the corn could use some more work perhaps. I love the variety of these challenges.
8" x 10" comes with frame $150