Children’s Book Illustration: Update

Another illustration complete: page 8.

Children’s Book Illustration: Update

Page 4, page 6 and page 7 completed at last and hopefully showing here.  This new Windows 8 sucks for dial up internet…I really did not think things could move any slower but I was mistaken. Two steps forward, one step back or is that one step forward, two steps back.

Children’s Story Book Ilustration Update

Three more illustrations completed slightly out of sequence but done.

Two new watercolors

Anemone Coronaria-flourishes in the gentle warm breezes of the Mediterranean

Canna ‘Wyoming’-native to open forest areas of tropical South Anerica

I finished two more watercolor flower studies.  Mike popped them into frames so fast that I didn’t get a scan so I photographed them right on the wall to share.

Children’s Book Illustration: update

I have finished the first illustration for book 2 of the Children’s Book that I am illustrating.

Three new floral studies

Lilium longiflorum commonly know as Easter lily-native to subtropical islands of Japan

Amaryllis, lilacs and catkins arrangement

Fritillaria imperialis ‘Lutea’-indigenous to deciduous woodlands of Iran and Turkey

Tory

Tory, Australian Shepherd age 15,  passed away just into the New Year.  She was an honoured senior member of our extended family pack and boarded with us often over the past 3 years.  She is missed!

A new watercolor

Raspberry study 1.  This one was fun.  I used the Pebeo drawing gum to protect where I wanted the highlights.  I am pleased with my progress so far.

Three more watercolors

Here are the next three watercolor experiments that I have completed.  Both are done on cold press paper.  The 9×12 one is a prototype of sorts of a painting that I am working on hot press paper.  I used it to try out the color choices and then could alter what I did not want to use prior to working on the hot press project.  I’m not sure if that makes sense.  Anyway it will be a while before I complete the one on the hot press paper.  I am semi-content with these…the goofs are obvious…to me especially.   It is okay as I am learning but I am still willing to share my progress such as it is.  As a side note the scan on these was not so good for the actual color and the more I tried to fix it the less and less good the color looked.

My latest watercolor studies

I feel like I am starting to make real progress with watercolor.  I did four more studies that were lessons from the DVD that I am learning from.  I also created my very own first original of a daisy grouping…my own photo reference, drawing and painting…as opposed to using idea, reference and drawing from the lesson DVD.  What I am finding now is that I catch myself…sometimes just in the knick of time…and stop before I over-work the paint and what a difference that makes.  I also used Pebeo drawing gum to protect the white of the paper for the daisy petals…good stuff.  The wind-blown daisies are done using a wax resist technique to protect the white paper of the daisy petals which is part of the DVD lesson.   Two of the floral studies are based on the ink line and wash technique from the DVD too.