I have taken up painting and sketching over the past several years and will post here some of my work, including educational and practice sketchbook material, so some copies  of other artwork/results of online tutorials intended to build brush and pen hours and improve technique.

Tufted Titmouse – Acrylic on paper (2018).

Sailboat at Dawn – Acrylic on canvas (12″ by 12″) (2019) – After Claude Monet’s painting Sailboat at Le Petit-Gennevilliers (1874).

Field of flowers – Acrylic on paper (2018).

Fish – Acrylic on paper (2018).

Flowering Bushes – Acrylic on paper (2019).

Winter barn on high plains – Acrylic on paper (2018).

Fall leaves – Negative painting – watercolor (2019).

Wisteria – Watercolor (2020).

Leaves – Watercolor on paper (2020) – Jane Blundell Mastering Watercolors online class assignment.

Draped Fabric – Graphite and colored pencil on paper (2020) – Jane Blundell Mastering Watercolors online class assignment.

Taj Mahal – Ink and watercolor in sketchbook (2020) – Jane Blundell Mastering Watercolors online class assignment.

Jeans and old tee shirt – Ink and watercolor in sketchbook (2020).

Puppy under the chair – Ink and watercolor sketch (for Inktober, 2020).

Music – Ink and watercolor in sketchbook (for Inktober, 2020).

Ink and watercolor pencil in sketchbook (2020).

After a Thomas Schaller painting – ink sketch and watercolor wash in sketchbook (2021).

Abandoned truck in prairie field – pencil sketch and watercolor (2021) – Jane Blundell Mastering Watercolors online class assignment.

Capitol Beach, CA – After a photo by my sister, Elaine Soule – Two-page spread panorama in journal – ink sketch followed by shading using Jane’s gray followed by color washes (2020).

Capitol Beach, CA – After a photo by my sister, Elaine Soule – Two-page spread vertical “panorama” in journal – ink sketch followed by shading using Jane’s gray followed by color washes (2020).

Dizzie Gillespie – Ink sketch and watercolor wash for Inktober, 2020.

Fish Stall – ink sketch with watercolor wash – Inktober 2020.

Pear Study – 23 by 28 cm Two Rivers 300pound rough watercolor paper – Jane Blundell Mastering Watercolors online class assignment (2021).

Pear Study – 5.5 by 8.5 inches – watercolor notebook, Arches 140 pound cold press watercolor paper – Jane Blundell Mastering Watercolors online class assignment (2021).

Old gate study – 5 by 7 inches – Ink and watercolor in Hahnemühle watercolor sketchbook – Jane Blundell Travel Sketching online class assignment (2020).

Elephant – 5 by 7 inches in watercolor sketchbook – after Hazel Soan – no preliminary drawing, brush only – goethite, then Indian red, then cerulean chromium wet on wet (2021).