Almost spring?

Until then, more flowers.

I wanted to make the background warm to feel more cheerful and, well, warm.  This is watercolor and colored pencil.

When I paint people, I often take a photo of the pencil sketch so I feel free to screw it up.  Not that I'm aiming to wreck a painting, but I normally like my sketches and it's sort of a mental trick to know that I have a nice sketch somewhere no matter what happens.  Here are my flowers again.

The first piece of art I sold was a contour drawing of a lily.  It was on show at the Institute Library last fall.  This isn't a blind contour drawing, but line drawings are so much fun.

Quick Study

I caught sight of this silhouette during the afternoon.  The light only lasted for a moment, but I thought the shadow of my old coffeepot was beautiful.  I use it in still life paintings, normally not just in shadow.  Thankfully I had a sketchbook handy.  I used walnut ink for the medium.

The sketchbook is not big - only 6 x 6 inches, but I wanted to capture something neat I saw on my wall today.