The challenge was to paint with the Zorn Palette, which is white, black, vermillion, and yellow Ochre.

I just acquired a bag of oil paints from a friend, and this is my first oil painting
it is 4x5 with the Zorn Palette

the reference photo from wetcanvas.

Zorn Ducks

three little pets, again projects on Wetcanvas
I got a new set of Derwent graphtint pencils, so used them in my aquabee recycled sketchbook

8x8 of Gigit

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watercolor of Mooshu

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another watercolor, this time Tacobelle and her snuggly

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I went out to the valley on the weekend and painted 3 plein air of the fall colors
in a 6x10 landscape arches WC book.

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my 50th submission!!
this is called Steppin High
a phot ref of a working dog from crispur2005 from wetcanvas.com

6x9 watercolor

#50

12x12 orchid in watercolor ,

#49

quick WC picnic basket 7x9
phot ref by KreativeK

#48

the musician
another photo ref from wetcanvas.com,  this time from mginsberg
this is 8x11 trying to ink in the shapes, and a musician appeared

#47

Jock the Garden Gnome
this was a photo ref from Ros of wetcanvas.com

8x10 watercolor

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Egrets, 5x7 watercolor

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another Gouache pup
this was painted over a gessoed failed WC
12x12

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The Moshpit.  this was from a photo ref of a feather trying to escape the arms if a tumbleweed
5x7 watercolor

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certainly bigger than a postcard, this is a 1/4 sheet WC

Ember

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One final furbaby, this is Trixy, photo ref by surob from wetcanvas.  I painted this with gouache in a brown paper sketchbook. the paper was not very absorbant so it is painted fairly loose

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This is Bunny , special friend to Robert or 'scappy' from wetcanvas. He led us through a wonderful workshop in painting fur. Bunny is paitned in gouache on a watercolor background

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This one is one of my cats, Lacey. She is a little thing, who does not know that she is disabled. She was attacked by a tom cat when she was a couple months old. She sufferes from a crushed disc in her back, and also has a heart murmur. We did not know if she would ever walk again, but she is now 7 yrs old , walks and gallops about with a dog-track gate, is fearless but also codependant

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I have been playing with Gouache lately and trying to learn how to paint fur through the Learning Zone of wetcanvas. There was a wonderful workshop offered by wetcanvas' Scappy, who is a marvelous artist.
the first offering is Rowdy, an australian blue heeler, photo ref by missswiss

#38

Osprey

This was a 20 min challenge with Gouache on 6x6 gessoboard. the board had a failed WC painting, so I gessoed over and got a lovely smooshy green color so left it as BG. used a 3/4 flat and quickly painted the osprey with colors- FUB and BSfor the darks, white, a touch of BS and naples yellow for the eye.

#37

Two Tomatos

This took and hour,  painted with acrylics on a canvas card for my friend



#36

Canada Thistle

This is another 6x8, but this time I used Daniel Smith watercolor ground on archival mat board. sprayed a WC background then when dry painted with gouache.

#35

Paete carver at work.

Paete is the Carving Capitol of the Philippians .
This is a crop of a Paete woodcarver, submitted by Jlloren from wetcanvas
it is watercolor on 8x8 paper

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STILE of life on the farm

another choice from the wetcanvas WDE, phot ref by Mo. I edited the reference to change the view through the stile, so the barn was framed . again using Creatacolor bloxx on a 8x8 WC pad, with a touch of pen on the stile itself. I turned the field of grass into a field of lavender

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Coming Home

This was a crop of a reference from this weekends' WDE on wetcanvas. I drew with my paintbrush, so it is kind of loose. I love the galloping horses coming home to me. This is 8x8, and I used Creatacolor bloxx as pan paints

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Nuthatch

this was a challenge for the pen and ink forum on Wetcanvas, drawn in sepia ink, and colored with inktense  and WC pencil scrumbled on background

#31

Cider Jugs

this is from this weekend WDE from wetcanvas, a crop of some transparent Cider jugs, 6x6 on handmade paper



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bottles

this was one I did after a weekend workshop on glass, I see I need to darken the walls and comply with the light coming thru the windows, but have not had the energy to do so  yet.
this is 7x12

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Sweet Mollie

this is sweet llittle Mollie from wetcanvas WDE last weekend, posted by Elaine
she is quickly painted on a watercolor card. and soon to be a birthday card for my fellow crazy-cat-lady friend.

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