It was my turn to do the banner for the month. I was lucky enough to get October. I LOVE October. This was a lot of fun to do. So, if you mosey on over to Watercolor Wednesday during the coming month you will see this as the banner.
Thank you, thank you very much.
"They walked all day, and they walked all night."
I did this piece for Watercolor Wednesday. The prompt was Day and Night. I envision this in an elephant story I'm working on.
This is my submission for Watercolor Wednesday. I've missed contributing due to schooling, but I'm out of school for now and ready to create.
The prompt for Watercolor Wednesday this week was Autumn colors and kids. I really enjoyed painting a little pile of leaves with my watercolors. 
I really liked how it turned out, but it wasn't really an illustration yet. I had to think of a way for that pile of leaves to tell a story. I wanted to be original so tried to think outside the box. I came up with the idea of kids playing in leaves that were HUGE! My next dilemma was that I really didn't want to ruin the leaves I'd painted. I wanted to be able to use them for another illustration in the future. My solution was to scan them into photoshop. Then I used the lasso and delete key to "cut out" the leaves from the background.
I painted a digital background and stuck my leaves on top. Then I painted little children frolicking amongst them. I really struggled with color. I kept changing the saturation and hue of the children trying to make them stand out more. Finally I decided it was good enough and posted it. 
It was a good learning piece and I still have my painted autumn leaves, untouched and ready for use in another project.
Finally finally finally. I actually did a little artwork. These were prompted by the prompts on Watercolor Wednesday, of which I am a part. I guess it took October's magnificent arrival to spur me to action. I just love Halloween. This first image just happened. I had no idea what was going to happen until I saw it come out of my pencil, ha ha. It's okay. The thing I like the best about it is that I actually did a drawing! And then I painted it. Both amazing things that haven't happened to me for a very long spell.
This second image was inspired by the Watercolor Wednesday prompt of Frankenstein in his younger years. Since Joni is pretty tall, and was always on all basketball teams growing up I decided I would turn tall Frankie into a BB player too. I even gave him Joni's number. I'm not sure if Joni is flattered or not. *smile*
I did this piece to fulfill multiple prompts.
"Subtract" for Illustration Friday
and
"Girly" for Watercolor Wednesday.
It's been a long time since I've opened up my watercolors. I was ready to take a break from perspective drawing and digital. This was fun. I think I need to do more pieces just for fun.
"With the embarrassing seatbelt-extension episode on the plane forgotten, Ella had a great time learning the hula."
I had a great time with this illo. I kind of liked the colors that happened. I inked this first, then painted with gouache. When dry, I held it under a stream of warm water and let it wash off the extra paint. I had some happy accidents when the paint washed off in patches in the sky making clouds.
The theme for Watercolor Wednesday this week was "Magic Wand".
I drew a blank (no pun intended). I just couldn't get a picture in my head. The next theme comes out tomorrow so I was feeling a bit of pressure to produce something. I decided to just do a wand in action. So that's what I did. It worked up pretty quickly, and then wouldn't you know it, I started getting ideas right and left. I guess that shows it's always good to at least start doing SOME kind of art when you reach a block. It will get the juices flowing again.
While on a family walk, Ella saw the most fascinating things.
This week for Illustration Friday the word is "Detach", and for Watercolor Wednesday the word is "Triplet". I combined the two so that I could post for both.
Can you imagine? Triplet elephants? Just imagine how big you'd get while pregnant. ha ha ha. I almost had a disaster with this. I used a different kind of paper and when I went to wash off the gouache the paper started to disintegrate! I didn't panic, just layed it out on a table as flat as I could until it dried. Oh well, you learn by doing, right?
This was outlined in India ink and then gouache. When the gouache is dry you wash it off! (I know, it's hard to see all that expensive gouache going down the drain.)
