a rose card

For a few minutes, I made this 13x13cm card for my neighbor friend who will be celebrating her birthday next week. Interestingly, she has the same birthdate as mine. I hope she will like it because it is really just a watercolor sketch and done quickly.

progress in rose exercise

I think I will leave these roses in this unfinished stage. 

Yes, the painting looks messy but I like it.

a short exercise in watercolors

With my desire to use other medium - other than watercolors, I started painting more using acrylic these past days. However, today I suddenly realized I am missing my favorite watercolors, so I did a little exercise following the loose style of Jean Haines of painting roses. In the first stage of my effort, I got what you see below. I made this image while I was waiting the paint to dry before I continue working on the next stage of the exercise. I am curious how this image will look like in the next stage.
Hope you are all well and have an enjoyable weekend.

just another rose

Painted in acrylic, size 7x9 inches. 

Have a great day.

iris from Monet's garden

I sketched this Iris flower with pen and watercolors. Here I used my own photograph as reference which is one of the many I took from the garden of Claude Monet in Giverny, France last May.

Have a fine weekend to everyone.

Coneflowers sketch

This is a quick watercolor sketch of coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea L.) which I based from the pictures I took during one of the outings I did this month. 
About two weeks ago I joined a group to visit a popular garden park 'De tuinen van Appeltern' in the city of Appeltern here in Holland. The place is a 23-hectare park with about 200 garden designs full of various plants and flowers (check www.appeltern.nl). With little time to spend there, I was not able to walk in the entire park as there were so many things to see and to wonder around. I managed however to take a few pictures of some flowers and some garden models which three of them can be seen below.

Surgeonfish

13x18 cm, watercolor

This is a watercolor sketch of a surgeonfish (Acanthurus japonicas). I based this from my own picture I took from the image of Gregg Yan I saw from www.rappler.com. I love the bright colors of this fish.

Another dog

Below is my second dog project in acrylic. This was the drawing I mentioned in my previous post. I stopped working on this painting in order to see if I need to do more finishing touches on it. I really enjoyed while working on this painting because I particularly didn't expect this result. I'm hoping that the owner of this dog will also enjoy seeing him in this painting.

pear sketch

Just experimenting here with acrylic colors. Did this last month, 12x16 cm.

My small painting space

The picture below is my small painting space in our house. Aside from my painting materials, shelves of books and  other things are also crowding the room. Shown on the white table is a newly drawn dog which I am going to paint soon. Have a nice and blessed days ahead to you all.