Category Archives: Gouache

Painting Floral Arrangements on Heart-Shaped Wood

These floral arrangements are two little paintings completed on 4 x 4 wooden hearts. I purchased the wooden hearts around Valentine’s Day.  These hearts are only available around the holiday, so I purchased several packs before they disappeared until next year. Last year, when a friend asked me to paint a portrait of her catContinue reading “Painting Floral Arrangements on Heart-Shaped Wood”

Summer Painting #8

It has already been a warm summer so far, so I thought that I would do a painting of a “cool” item from the suggested list. “Popsicle” is one of the suggestions on the list, though I am not sure why “ice cream cone” isn’t, but just as well, they are both a ton ofContinue reading “Summer Painting #8”

Happy Independence Day

This is one of the paintings that I did for today. I am debating on posting the other but AI poaching has me hesitant and I want to save some unpublished work for art directors, so that other piece will probably get turned into a postcard. This one is another 4×4 small art that IContinue reading “Happy Independence Day”

Summer Painting #2

Summer is such a fun time of year. Most of us look forward to the longer days where we have much more time in the evenings to enjoy being outside or even just getting things done around the house. The sun comes up earlier which means we can get out earlier to do our dailyContinue reading “Summer Painting #2”

Horse

Another project that I have been working on is horse illustrations/art. Something I did a long time ago that I picked up again just recently. We used to own racehorses and I would sit in the paddock and sketch the horses as they were getting tacked up and harnessed for races. A lot of theContinue reading “Horse”

World Watercolor month

There is a challenge going on called World Watercolor Month. There is a list of prompts and all that but you aren’t required to use the list. I haven’t done this challenge in previous years but since I am in the middle of working on a project that is a mix of watercolor and gouache,Continue reading “World Watercolor month”

P is for Pretzel

I belong to an illustrator’s group and we recently had an A-Z challenge. I played with all sorts of lettering… I thought of all sorts of ideas, notes jotted, ideas written out…. but couldn’t get anything on paper until we did a Zoom last week and a pretzel was one of the objects for usContinue reading “P is for Pretzel”

Lemons and….

I belong to an illustrator’s group and a couple of times a month we get together to draw or learn a cool trick or tip. The guest this week was Jennifer Orkin Lewis and we were working in our sketchbooks, drawing a collection of objects that she had assembled. I drew mine directly from gouacheContinue reading “Lemons and….”