How I Paint

Just for fun, I thought I'd show the painting process for this painting:

This is a painting I did for a friend and it measures 22in X 30in and is done in watercolors (my favorite medium).
So first, I started by sketching it out and then masking of the birds and the branch with watercolor masking. This lets me paint the background without fear of getting paint on the foreground.

You can just barely see the birds masked off. The paper is also taped down to keep it from warping too much (which paper likes to do when wet from say . . .watercolors).
Next, I did my first wash of color:

Very light and basically just doing some color blocking and deciding what colors I wanted to use.
Second wash:

A little darker now, more brilliant colors used.
Third wash:

I actually did another wash after this and forgot to take a picture of it. Oh well! I let it dry completely and then removed the masking. Next came painting the birds, again, done in washes.

This is after 2 washes. You can start to see some details.

After another 2 washes. Time to paint the branch!

The finished painting again - did 2 washes for the branch and touched up the sparrows. I hope my friend likes it!

Plush Sparrows

I've made 3 little plush sparrows! Two of them are mine and will be hanging from my ceiling. The third one is my son's (the blue one with the blue belly with orange circles) - he picked out the fabric for his!!

Happy Thanksgiving

The sparrows in my backyard want you to have a Happy Thanksgiving!

How about some Halloween art?

It's always Halloween for me :D

Both done in Gimp.

Project 365 - My hubby and I rescued a sparrow!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. House sparrows are my favorite bird. EVER!!!

And we had the privilage of rescuing a male house sparrow! We kept him safe, fed him and gave him water, and kept him as stress free as we could. And he perked up and took off!!!

I wuvs him!!!!! For several hours he didn't look like he'd live. I'm so glad he did!

These pics are for Sept. 8, 9 and 10. And yep! That's me holding him!!

Wish List!!!

It's been awhile since I've posted anything from Etsy. So I thought I'd share my wishlist!!!





I LOVE LOVE LOVE this sparow skull pendant from mrd74. Want. So. Bad.

Can you tell I have a thing for bird skulls? This little gem is from billyblue22.

This adorable print is by Toxicguineapigs.

Squeel!! Wood block print by MarkMason.

Apparently I'm on a bird kick . . . .

Project 365

A wee female house sparrow! She's gathering twigs for her nest. I absolutely LOVE sparrows!