Goache still life at home

Continuing in the vein of stuff I did in class.

This is a complimentary neutralization study: only Violet, Yellow, Black, & White were used (and mixed with each other).

Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache on some kind of watercolor paper

Monday Evening Rabbit

Because I haven't posted anything in a while, I will post this rabbit I did as a quick watercolor sketch while on vacation in Michigan this past summer.

W&N watercolors in watercolor Moleskine sketchbook

Gouache Color Studies, pt. 1

I took a 4-week workshop at Evanston Art Center called Painting Studio Intensive: Color & Practice with Nina Weiss, an instructor I had back in my Columbia days.
I got a lot out of it in terms of thinking about color, practice handling an opaque media, and will be painting more in future to continue these experiments...

Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache on Arches watercolor paper
TOP: monochromatic   BOTTOM: complimentary neutralization

Ditzy

We visited Monches Farm on our recent visit to Wisconsin. They have some exotic breed chickens there and I drew this one that my son and our friend's son nicknamed "Ditzy."

Quick watercolor landscape studies

This is the kind of thing you do when you're trying to learn a new medium.

Giraffe

Giraffe at Lincoln Park Zoo

Caran d'Ache Umber & Derwent Baked Earth Inktense colored pencils & wash in Moleskine watercolor sketchbook

Library Frog 1

This is my first attempt at the (Aquatic) African Clawed Frog that lives in our library's fish tank. A kind of fascinating/repulsive/beautiful/comic creature. He/She moved after a bit, and so I didn't get time to draw all his parts right. (Also wound up a bit too cutesy-looking.)

Caran d'Ache Supracolor II Black and Greyish Black w/s pencils & wash in Moleskine watercolor sketchbook