Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Trees #119–124

Low foliage at the base of the trees. 6-13-12
Those same sapplings I sketched before at the base of
our Silver Maples in our backyard. 6-15-12
Just playing again with wet-into-wet watercolors
followed by colored pencil. 6-16-12
The view from our sunroom window of the
neighbor's backyard. 6-19-12
This is a tree across the street in a neighbor's side yard. 6-21-12
The middle portion of tree trunks in our backyard 
I can see from my upstairs window. 6-26-12

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Tree #114–118

 A cluster of leaves on a low "tree" at the base
of one of our Silver Maples. 6-2-12

Layered tissue paper, matte
medium, and matte medium tinted with
water color. It was fun to play! 6-4-12

 Just a quickie, still playing... 6-5-12

These are trees I could see across the street from the
VAAM gallery window. It was almost dusk, no customers,
almost closing time. 6-7-12

After a great day looking at fine arts and fine crafts at Smoky Hill River Festival in Salina, I was so hot and tired, I sat down to rest. No sketchbook with me again, but I found a piece of goofy paper and a ballpoint pen, and did this of the tree across from where I was sitting. 6-10-12

Tree #109–113

I took a walk to Lakeside Park and after
walking completely around the lake, I found
a bench by the water and sketched the tree before me
that was hanging over the water. 5-24-12

Just a quickie of the view to the northwest
of our backyard. 5-28-12
I walked around Lakeside Park lake almost at dusk, and
again sat on a park bench, but didn't take my sketchbook.
When I got home, I did this from memory. There are a few
ripples in the water I could put in....5-29-12
I was "in" all day, working at the VAAM gallery,
no sketcch book again, so did this from memory
later in the evening... 5-30-12
Another tree at Lakeside Park. What a resource
Lakeside Park is! I'm glad I live so close! 5-31-12