gyroscape
ALT: crayon and watercolor, in soft blues and red/pinks. The drawing is vertically oriented, with something like water on the lower part, but the upper part seems to be a lake-and-hill landscape, oriented 90 degrees off. You could probably orient the page so that the landscape would settle, but that’s not the way I drew it.
I don’t really get tired of making these watercolors, it’s like reliving blissful vacation dreams
ALT: watercolor painting of lake, mountain and sky. This one has clouds that are more blue than gray, the mountains are distant and purplish, and the trees on the shoreline are a dark green mass of cool shade. And probably bugs.
can you tell it’s water?
ALT: watercolor and ink painting, trying to depict the surface of the water reflecting the sky above and showing the ground below in the shaded part, and some leaves overhanging, in the upper right corner.
purple clou–ou-ou-ou–ou-ou-ouds
(don’t ask, you had to be there)
ALT: There’s Red Hill across the lake, but looking very purple and green, under a really violet streak of sky.
don’t hug me
ALT: watercolor painting, loose and sketchy, of a dead pine in a forest, with bare and very spiky branches
reaching pine
ALT: watercolor painting of a dark pine tree with branches and needles tending upwards, with a quietly dramatic sky that echoes the motion of the tree.
walking through the garden
ALT: Watercolor background which is mostly an exploration of textures and colors, green foliage, blue and purple shadows, yellow and orange flowers. It’s kind of a bit of lawn with maybe a hedge above and drifts of blooms from the right side. On that ground, as if in a different reality, there are 3 odd calligraphic stick figures, apparently a couple and one more trailing behind. The garden just wanted to be inhabited, I thought.
a prickly sun
ALT: watercolor drawing of a round orange sun above, with rays sticking out not in a geometrically regular pattern. There’s a shell-like spiral below in colors that echo the sun, and in between are sort of floaty pale green and purple lines drifting around like ribbons in a breeze.
Originally posted for 3/19/25, now with colors. This may not be quite done, but it’s more done than it was. You can go back to the original post, print it out, and add your own colors if you wish.
ALT: The line drawing of a tree by a stream from 3/19/25, now with watercolors added. So, sunset yellows and reds in the sky, pink flower blossoms, blue stream with yellow splashes, purple hills, and the tree is shadowy purples and reddish browns. One trailing branch, which is kind of weird, and the big root up front really looks like a foot or a toe.
stirrings
ALT: calligraphic watercolor in pink, purple, blue and green. The green makes leafy stalks, with pink and purple flowery blobs, and breezy blue spirals between.
