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What made me want to paint rock pebbles?

Funny, when you see it at a glance, they just look so dull and grey, but soak them in water, you see their real colours.
It’s a challenge for me to get the right colour using colour pencils as they are not like water or oil paint where you can blend them before you paint it.

You see, on  a black paper it’s hard to use black. In order to make the black popped out, I’ve used ‘ink blue’ as base then only I use the black or the green.

It was fun watching the colour comes to life. I’m very very satisfied with this painting as this is my 1st on this subject. More to come, on pebbles, with more varieties of colours.

This IS difficult!!

This idea was thrown to me by Wendy from the quaint little bookshop where I rent all my reads. When I told her that I’ve started to paint, she suggested why not do something beneficial with my work, with purpose.

She was reading this book by a guy in USA who started this ‘Wine to Water’ project, where this organisation provides free filters for households & wells in war-torn country such as Afghanistan, Africa etc. Obviously by doing so, they need people to donate $ in order to churn out & distributes the filters. She suggested that I paint something relating to that & put it for sale, the $ is up to me to decide how much I would like to contribute to this purpose.

So I surfed their website and found some pictures for references. The original picture was of 2 kids

Now, this is an interesting painting because ‘Spike’ is my baby.

He’s an English bulldog that we got from Bangkok, Thailand 4 yrs ago. Hubby was pestering me for painting of his favourite ‘son’.

That’s a tough subject, to paint a dog? at my level? not really confident but heck, why not, the most I could just tear it off if it doesn’t look like a dog.

Took me 5 days to complete, at every stage I was, ahem!.., amazed that I could do it. The colouring was ok but the worse part was the individual hair details that got me all tensed up. I’ve learned a lot of this technique through You Tube cp tutorials, it helps! Needless to say, I was & still very proud that I achieved the likeness of dear Spike.

HOLI – festival of colours

ladybug under macro lense

safe haven

Glass of ‘orange’ water

Now, while looking at Gary Greene Colored Pencil book.

His drawing of this horse captured my eyes..

Let’s try painting it, Horse with shiny coat.

Took me 3 days to complete, it was satisfying!