Everything's Coming Up Roses

When I had finished painting my Peace Roses, I added some dark geometric shapes in the background.  I felt that the painting still needed something.  That's when I remembered the Watercolor Artist Creativity Workshop challenge to add words or lettering to a painting.  I found some songs that had roses in the titles, and I wrote the titles freehand in the light negative spaces. 

"Everything's Coming Up Roses" 11x11

The Bride and Groom

This is a sketch of the wedding my of son Kevin, and his bride, Flor, in Punta Cana. It was an awesome wedding!

Punta Cana Sketches

Saturday my son Kevin got married in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. I was there for five days and got in a little sketching, along with swimming, sunburning, walking, eating, drinking and shopping, and of course, the wedding! Here are a few of my sketches.

......And the New One in Full Bloom

This is a sketch of my new Amaryllis Minerva. I love the bright red and white flowers, so exciting to look at, especially on a gloomy winter day.

Amaryllis Sketch

This is the latest page from my sketchbook, showing an amaryllis that I did from an old photo. I had purchased an amaryllis in December, thinking that I would grow it right after Christmas. I waited too long, and my house was too warm, and the plant started growing in the box and was too far gone by the time I realized it. So today I bought a new amaryllis, and planted it as soon as I got home. I plan to sketch it as it grows with the expectation that I will eventually have a beautiful amaryllis in full bloom to paint. Keeping my fingers crossed.

First Sketchcrawl of 2012

It was barely 20 degrees and snowing hard this morning, so I did the sketchcrawl at home. I only got three sketches done because when you are at home, you get distracted by other things. First up is a sketch of my breakfast along with the view from my kitchen window. Next is my "snow removal guy", my son Kevin. And last is a view of my street going North. By this time it was late afternoon and the plows had come through and the street was clear.

Merry Christmas