Category Archives: All Challenges

Watercolor wet in wet

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I need more practice doing watercolor clouds. Thank you for the opportunity.

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I painted this watercolor and ink while listening to Burl Ives. My favorite children’s singer/songwriter.  I have also been reading a story about Beatrix  Potter.

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This is a mixed media piece.   Underpainting was hints of hiliter markers, with primarily color pencils and some touches of  soft pastel.  

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Alcohol Ink on Photo paper with pen liner work. It is very small, 2.5 x 3.5 inches, ACEO size.

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A challenge for me as I hadn’t used acrylic paint for a while  and I found getting the color as I wanted it. 

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Decided to use the bokeh background, my new favorite background.  Like the new process Lela!!!  Good to be back.

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Painted with oil over a value painting executed with acrylic.

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This is a digital painting done in Procreate on the iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. I am so happy to find a painting challenge which allows any medium! Having small children it can be hard to oil paint with the set-up and clean-up time involved. Also, I have found…

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I like to paint realistic motives, landscapes, still lifes and portraits. Thank you Lela for giving us this platform.

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