Catch of the Day

This was a quick watercolor sketch - still working on my effort to paint better portraits... my goal for 2009!

From my nursery trip...

I think this is a camelia? Not sure - but it was such a lovely flower that I had to snap a photo of it when I was at the nursery and have been wanting to paint it for a few weeks and finally got the chance today... I was really pleased with the top two leaves and enjoyed the wet on wet background.

5"X7" transparent watercolor

on 300 lb hot press paper

The Invitation...

Another "dog on the beach" painting...I think this guy was a border collie but he had the opposite coloring from the border collies I've known - mostly white with black markings. But definitely had the wonderfully crazy border collie personality!

Windsor & Newton and Sennelier

transparent watercolors

on 300 lb hot press watercolor paper

Nibblefest for April

This is my entry for this month's Nibblefest - the theme is "Favorite Childhood Stories". Mine is based on a Robert Louis Stevenson poem from his wonderful book "A Child's Garden of Verses".

THE LAND OF NOD

From breakfast on through all the day

At home among my friends I stay,

But every night I go abroad

Afar into the land of Nod

All by myself I have to go,

with none to tell me what to do--

All alone beside the streams

And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

The strangest things are there for me,

Both things to eat and things to see,

And many frightening sights abroad

Till morning in the land of Nod.

Try as I like to find the way,

I never can get back by day,

Nor can remember plain and clear

The curious music that I hear.

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DSFDF Challenge for April

This was for Karin Jurick's Different Strokes From Different Folks blog.

At Anchor - Honeymoon Bay

This painting is from a reference photo I took a couple of weekends ago. My husband and I went for a motorcycle ride down Whidbey Island to Honeymoon Bay - what a beautiful spot! And these lucky people were at anchor there.

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Variation on a theme...

This is kind of a variation on the "spring section" of my living room painting on an earlier post - different vase and flowers - same bunny.