Digital Watercolors- Trees and Hills

Week 2 of the Artrage class I'm taking. I'm experimenting with doing quicker speedpaints, just to play with processes, produce work, and move on to the next piece. These both took 30-45 minutes. Done entirely in Artrage. The one with the mountains in the background is from a recent drive we were on in the Central Valley. The other, more nebulous painting is just from my mind. It's been fun to just produce some work and let it go.

Digital Watercolors- Pears and Magnolias

I'm taking an online digital art course through the Digital Art Academy (DAA) again.  Goes for 4 weeks-- its uesful.  There are pdfs, etc. but there are also online meetings where we all have mics and headsets, and can talk while viewing the screen of the teacher.  Pretty cool.  This time its on Artrage.  Here's the first two pics I did.  One of pears, and one of some Magnolias Kat got for her b-day last month.

Digital Watercolors- Autumn Fog

About 2 hours of play time.

Children's Art- Recent Character Doodles

I've actually been playing around with a lot of approaches-- some inked, some ink brown ink, some in a rough pencil, some real light, some only in pencil with no color, etc. I thought I'd share these.

First, "Big Men do tai chi too"-- digital ink

Second, "The Grumpy Farmer"- in digital charcoal and watercolor

Third, "Little Girl Rules the Roost"- trying out thicker line weight

Digital Watercolors- The Creek

Did this earlier this month. I'm building a set of brushes in Paint Tool Sai, and like to work on a real image as I play with the effects. This came out pretty watery, which was nice.

Children's Art- A Girl and Her Dragon

I inked this over the weekend, then imported it and colored it digitally. This is a rough sketch idea for the same story, "Dandelion and Clover", about a little girl and her dragon.

Children's Art- Little Girl on a Hill

Been a few weeks since I last posted, but I've been active. There should be a flurry of posts in the next few days-- mostly poems and paintings.

This one was done entirely on the computer, though I've been playing around a lot with textures that emulate watercolors and rough pencil sketches. This one started as a cloud doodle and went from there. I've been fishing around for how to visualize a recent story I wrote called "Dandelion and Clover" about a little girl and her dragon, who eats the dandelion puffs made from wishes. This was one of the thoughts.