Wife's Birthday

Yesterday was my wife Barbara's Birthday.  We were running around at the beach and dinner so I am posting this a day late.  She really likes the Day of the Dead motif so I usually do something along those lines for her.  This was done in colored markers. So Happy Birthday Love.

Pine Tree Deer

A little bit of an experiment.  I will probably redo this with watercolor instead of colored pens.  I think I can get better color differentiation but not a bad study and worth working on until its perfect.

Tree Calligraphy

I little tree calligraphy done with colored markers.

Swamp Cypress

This is a pen sketch of a Swamp Cypress tree on a bank.  More practice for the 10000 hours of mastery.

Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak

I think I have finished this one.  I worked on the foliage and the tree trunks.   I will leave this alone for a bit and see if I still think so.  If you are ever in Colorado Springs go to the Garden of the gods, especially near sunset.   This is a larger oil painting at 16in x 20in.

Dancing Tree people

Back to the tree motif, this is a pen sketch of Dancing Trees.  Something quick and fun for the return of the work week.

Black Hills South Dakota - round two

I worked on the Black Hills today, ironically making them a little less black.  I started to add the pine trees and to further refine the foreground meadow.  The trees will need some more work as will the meadow.