Penguin Awareness Day

Für den Penguin Awareness Day am 20 Januar habe ich ein paar Königspinguine in Aquarelle gemalt. Inspiriert von den Aquarellstudien in Tim Ponds Buch ,,Watercolor the Natural World".

 For Penguin Awareness Day on January 20th I painted some King Penguins in watercolors. Inspired by the study sheets in Tim Pond's wonderful book "Watercolor the Natural World".

All the birds....

 Während meiner Blogpause habe ich Hunderte von Vögeln gezeichnet und gemalt. Eine kleine Auswahl. Bald gibt's mehr.

During my blogging break I painted and drew hundreds of birds. Here are some of them. Will share some more soon.

Blaumeise/Blue Tit

Kohlmeise/Great Tit

Blaumeise/Blue Tit

Zaunkönig/Wren

#SummerBuggin 2022

 Ich habe jahrelang nichts mehr gepostet. Aber irgendwann muss man ja mal wieder loslegen. Der Umzug ist fast geschafft, so dass wieder ein bißchen mehr Zeit ist. #SummerBuggin war eine tolle Challenge auf Twitter und ich habe es nun endlich geschafft, die vier Blätter aus dem Jahr 2022 zu rahmen.

Paint Party Friday: Hedgehogs for a Birthday Card

Hello and welcome for Paint Party Friday!

This week was my husband's birthday and although we don't give each other any gifts, I usually paint him a card for birthdays or anniversaries.

He loves hedgehogs and so I sketched a lot of hedgehogs to have some to choose from. They all turned out cute, but I had to decide (not that that I wouldn't use the other cuties for future paintings *LOL*).

I really like the new watercolor paper and althought the format is a bit weird, it's perfect for cutting A 6 cards from it. Hedgie no 1 was this one. Painted with White Nights watercolors.

Hedgehog no 2 was a bit off center, so I decided to add a bumblebee to balance it out..

Glued both of the hedgies on cards. DH got the top oneand the other one went into my card stash. Always good to have some handpainted cards, so I don't have to paint some under pressure. Really in love with these two hedgehogs.

Have a great weekend and make sure to visit all the wonderful artists for Paint Party Friday.

Thursday Art Date with Rain: Jump!

 Hello lovely painters at Thursday Art Date with Rain!

I haven't posted in ages, which doesn't mean I don't paint. Jut didn't feel the urge to post something on my blog. But now I'm back and try to post more regularly. Missed you all!

Today's theme is JUMP and I just painted the perfect little fox for it. He's hunting mice and is part of a little series of A5 woodland animals in watercolors.

Like almost always it started with a pencil sketch.

And then White Nights watercolors. Starting to really love them. paper is Canson 300 grams/m² watercolor paper.

While I was waiting for my first vaccination, I did a whole sheet of pencil fox studies, so there will be more foxes in the future. The one below was painted on a postcard and will become part of my stash for greeting cards.

Enjoy all the beautiful artsy entries for today! Glad to be back posting!