Sea Turtle

One-point Perspective

Here I am playing with a one-point perspective that leads way out onto the water. I do need to put some windows or something on the left side, it's pretty bland.

A Bunny for Kyra

Water Lily

Taking the lessons learned from the class I took, I started work on this painting of a water lily. Doing a quick search of 'flower' on google images, I found a good reference shot and printed it out. I transfered the drawing to my paper using tracing paper and got to work.

I used glazing techniques a lot in this work. For the water, there are about 8? 10? layers of ultramarine blue, pthalo blue, prussian blue and even one of burnt sienna. One thing I need to figure out is how to eliminate the hard edges all those layers create. Or perhaps learn to work with them as they do give a sharp contrast about the bottom of the flower.

Kyra came up to me and asked if I would paint something blue for her bedroom, so that'll be the next project. I also picked up a sheet of hot-pressed paper that I'd like to try. Hot-pressed paper is much smoother than the cold-pressed that I've been using so far.