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.
back-from-vacation but still mining the snapshots I took from the kayak
ALT: ink painting of a New Hampshire hill rising over a lake, with a couple islands of dark trees in front.
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.
Moody lake vista.
I am back from vacation, but need to spend the next couple of days catching up with work. So for now I will just post the first of my vacation week arts, and will fill in the rest over the next couple of days.
ALT: ink painting, landscape. Dark, almost black hill silhouetted against stormy looking clouds and water that is raked with patterns representing ripples that didn’t come out nearly the way I wish they had. Still. I like that it’s stark bands of dark and light, and the way the ink behaved to represent clouds is pretty satisfying to me.
portal to the rabbitat
ALT: ink and crayon drawing. Some kind of being with arms upraised is stepping through a flamboyantly decorated arch, onto a field where five white rabbits sit and vaguely pay attention.
bubble dragon
ALT: ink drawing in vibrant yellows, oranges and blues, of something that could be a seahorse hybrid, but with legs and a sort of puppydog face. there are wavy vertical lines at its back that could be kelp, and many orange-rimmed bubbles in the open water that it faces.
the Guardian, one more time. I’m posting the first two versions below the ALT text, as well as the original National Geographic photo, just to have them all in one place.
ALT: crayon drawing referencing that same photo of the elephant poacher guard leaning on a spear. It is pretty much completely abstracted in this version, with the gold robe, green and reddish ground, and a purple arc of sky. Below are the original photo reference, and the two previous drawing interpretations I’ve posted.
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