Lessons from Sandrine Maugy

This French watercolor artist uses a technique she calls harmonic shadows to create beautiful works of art.  I have just received her lovely book Colours of Nature and finished the first exercise: yellow.  These quinces were underpainted in a shadow color mixed from the red, blue and yellow used elsewhere in the painting.  Orange is next.

Busy Month of March

Have been beavering away, inspired by a lot of new reference books, a promise to come up with 3 pieces for my dear friend Pat, and the Natural History Illustration group's March focus on colored pencils.  This tulip is probably the last cp work I'll do this month, as I am eager to work more  with watercolor, which is the medium for the Xeranthemum Immortelle pictured here.

Sandhill Crane in Colored Pencil

This is the companion piece to the Brown Pelican.

Brown Pelican in Colored Pencil

Finished this Pelican as the left-most panel in Pat's three-panel wall hanging.  The right-most one will be a Sandhill Crane (Pat's favorite bird) and the center will be???

Frog

Done in graphite with a bit of charcoal on the black areas.