Webster-Cliff Trail

A painting that I did from a hike we had a few summers ago in Crawford Notch Park in New Hamphire. A great trail with lots of difficulties the views are breathtaking!
10.5x14.5" Pastel on colorfixed watercolor paper.

Nosy Gala WIP finish

Finished finally! Here is my crazy big headed (on purpose) painting of Gala. In real life its much better than the photo, correcting digital camera photos is not an extact science. I was hoping to achieve just a fun piece, cartoonish, to bring some personality to a simple dog painting.

Nosy Gala

Another installment of Nosy Gala. Things have been busy at home this week. I shrunk the ball down to increase the feeling of a really big head. Added more lights and darks into the trees. Worked more on her nose that was off. Generally added more medium and darks thoughout her face. Now I need to bring in highlights to show the where the sun is shinning on her more. Then decided on whether grass will come in with strokes.

Nosy Gala WIP

Here I am at todays stopping point.....really crazy looking! Gotta fix things but this is generally the color scheme.

Rolling MountainsWIP

I'm finished with this landscape. I added a field of flowers and worked on the trees. Some touches up here and there on the mountains and deleted one mountain in the far back almost center for a more interest.

Nosy Gala WIP

Another doggie painting from a photo supplied by a friend. This is Kim's dog Gala a beauty, and a halarious photo of her that I just couldn't pass up.
Watercolor paper primed with clear colorfix primer with a watercolor underpainting. It got alittle crazy as I dropped red paint by mistake onto my yellow background, and being an artist started playing around forgetting that it was an underpainting.
13.5x10.5"

Rolling Mountains WIP

This is where I'm at this morning. I work on it more after puppy trainging classes.

Rolling Mountains WIP

Started a challange painting from Wetcanvas Pastel Challanges. This is done on watercolor paper primed with colorfix Rose Grey. No watercolor underpainting this time as the Rose Grey gave an all over underlining dirt feeling to it. It is 10.5x13.5" and this is the intial layer of hard pastels.

Jackson WIP

Here I am at the fine tuning stage...trying to get a true color digital to load up this is from under studio lights at night, so the colors pop a bit more.

Jackson NH WIP

Here I am all the areas have had something dealt with them. The original photo has alot of trees in but I'm paring them down. Fussy branches need to be dealt with a bit more and things tweaked.

Jackson NH WIP

Here is the intial layers of pastel to bring it to local colors. I started off with the sky and mountains to set the tone of the painting and will work down from there.

Jackson WIP

Hi Thanks for looking in! I'm going for a landscape this time. My underpainting mostly in warms to create a pop when i put greens ontop as that area will be the focal area.
watercolor underpainting on colorfixed primed watercolor paper
10.5x13.5

Coneflowers WIP

Worked on the coneflowers again this morning I'm happier today with it. I softened up the background leaves to show some distance in the background. I also livened up the closest flower to have a focal point. I will put it aside for a bit and see if anything else is needed.