Prickly Pear Cactus - Sepia Ink

Tonight is a little different as variety is the spice of life.  This is not an original design, but I did this little sketch in sepia ink of Prickly Pear cactus with blossoms.

Cascading Water study finished up

I finished this up over the weekend.  I changed some of the water detail and worked on the water over the rocks and improved the rocks.  One more small study in the march towards 10,000 hours of work to get closer to mastery.  Though the nice challenge of art is you never really get mastery you are always challenging yourself to get better

Delicate Arch Milky Way Nocturne - Part 3

I worked on the Delicate Arch today by adding the detail to the Arch and by darkening the sky.

Delicate Arch with Milky Way Nocturne

I worked on this some today.  I will need to darken the sky more before adding stars to the Milky way sky.  I added some red to the sand stone.  I will need to go back and refine the darks and details on the sandstone but I like it so far.

Cherry Blossoms, Pagoda and Washington Monument Update

I worked on this last night but could not post it or paint more on it as we had a three hour power outage for no apparent reason.  No storms, no wind, nothing but power just out till after midnight.  I intend to completely block this in over the weekend so no canvas is exposed and then I can start the process of adjusting and adding detail and depth.

New Project - Cherry Blossom Pagoda and Washington Monument

This is the start of the new project, this is a 16 x 20 inch painting of the Cherry Blossoms at the tidal basin with the small Pagoda Monument with the tidal basin and the Washington Monument in the background.  O have just started and this was all I got done this evening.

Irises - Finished

This post gives you an idea of how I developed this painting from the basic block-in to the continuing refinement of the image.  This is more detailed than I normally paint but this is a more detailed subject.  I did this from a photo I got from another source, but the goal is to paint something like this from life.  That won't be possible until I get done with the current cubical monkey job.  I will continue to practice in the mean time.