Category Archives: All Challenge Responses

I tried this challenge again, this time in chalk pastel.

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I don’t feel I did this challenge justice, although I tried to correct it, it never worked. Well on to the next challenge and wishing everyone a very happy and paintful new year.

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This was difficult to do to get the colors as I wished them to be. Watercolor is difficult to show a darker area and keep the lighter colors within it. Nice to paint for a while though. Keep safe everyone. Merry Christmas.

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I started with a sepia under painting and then added my darks   I really enjoyed this flower painting 

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Recently my son gave me hand-made Indian paper. I have used it in this collage, as well as my acrylic painted paper, bit of linen and white rice paper.  

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Aquarelle en première couche, puis crayons de couleur en petites touches pour accentuer les contrastes et finissions. Les crayons de couleur accrochent très sur l’aquarelle bien sèche.

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I’m still very much a beginner using watercolor paints and this was a definite challenge, On enlarging the photo I managed to see blue colors? Fun to paint.

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I’m still very much a beginner using watercolor paints and this was a definite challenge, On enlarging the photo I actually mana

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Oil pastel.

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I worked on this drawing with colored pencils and ink while listening to a free online course on Children’s Literature from Hillsdale College. 

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Painted with gouache on watercolor paper

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This pastel was painted on Art black 400 paper. Used a variety of pastels.

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This is my first floral and happy I atleast made the deadline which was one of my goals. The paper I used is Bockingford rough 300lb. Colors are a challenge and have so much more to learn, but it was fun and love these Mission Gold paints. Thank you for…

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The most challenging part of this painting was finding the different shade values of the petals and also finding the “ghost” leaves.

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