Adventures with drawing and painting
Fall is generally my favorite time of year, although this year it is taking a long time for that “feeling” to reach me. These watercolor paintings of fall leaves are helping to bring the mood. I wanted to put a couple of postcards/notes in a recent packet of cards and letters to my folks back
I painted this watercolor painting of our local park at dusk the other night after my daughter and I took the dog out on an evening walk. The sky was unexpectedly clear and the light was fading, but there was a lot of color in the sky. I used a pencil, a Uniball Vision pen,
Here is a recent landscape watercolor painting of a hill called The Law in Scotland. Going down The Law, one of the hills in the Ochil Hills range, was the best part of my recent hike up Ben Cleuch. After getting to the top of Ben Cleuch, we slowly descended down The Law and the
An abstract watercolor painting combining a few different images from the past summer.
Watercolor painting of our little house on Main St, before it gets renovated early next year.
Similar to what I did for Sam, I made a little portrait of Vivian from her first day of school. She loves that her hair looks a little reddish/purple as she really wants to dye her hair. Oh, and shave it on one side to get it swooping over the other. 🙄 I used a
A little watercolor landscape, this time with the dog. Her sitting while in a field is a rare occurrence indeed. The texture and pattern of the grass was something I wanted to work on a bit on this. I wanted it to appear flat like the hillside makes it look, not stretching off into the
A little portrait of Sam from his first day of school. He changed his hairstyle up for his first day of school and so far, it is very important to keep it that way.
A little painting from our recent walk around Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park on a random day where we took the train and underground into the city with no destination in particular. This scene is of the Partick bridge spanning the River Kelvin with the tower of Glasgow University in the background. Beautiful spot.
My wife says this one was really creepy. Maybe. Yeah, probably. I was inspired to add the ominous background based on the artist John Brosio’s paintings: https://johnbrosio.com/paintings/