Farmlife photos

 Just some colourful farmlife photos.  It would be fun to paint these one day.

Hobbit for the holidays

 

Another in the hobbit hole series with the limited palette handmade paints.

This guy is only three inches tall but packs a punch.  

Happy Holidays

 

I've been following youtube tutorials - sort of - and the limited Zorn Palette in handmade watercolours.

Occasionally, I add a bit of the winter nights blue with sparkles when I can't get a green just right.

My favourite is the hot chocolate.  

This might be a mistake

 Possibly the beginning of the end of gelly gouache for me.  

Poor chicken.

But festive. 

Beautiful hen

 A friends chicken but for some reason, I just had to paint it. It's a comfort thing now.

I probably would have eaten chocolate instead if I had any in the house.  But I'm glad I painted a chicken instead.

Regular watercolours, a mix of student and professional.

I just love the way she glows. 

Perhaps something more Shire

 

I'm playing with a new limited palette which is very like the one I created from beam paints only this time from commercial paints in tubes that I can pour into a more portable palette.  

Caput Mortuum, Indigo, and Hansa.  I feel the need to add a green to this, but haven't found one I like yet.  But it can do a lot more than I expected with just those colours.

But still, something's missing.  So I added some lines with a dip pen and trying out sumi ink.

I like this much better

I don't always get it right

 I like to imagine that I get it right more often than not, but um... maybe it's closer to 50/50.

By "right" means that it's the best I can do with my current skillset and feel good about it.

Today's disaster is of a local folly and waterwheel in Himi Gelly Gouache.  It's really sad that I even used a protractor to get the angles right.  Although looking at it now, I can see some of the error is from the post concussion vision issues that won't go away.