Visual Arts – Page 4 – mind and heart

pan pastels

I had fun exploring with a new medium. Pastel on paper, 6×9″.

This has been such a wonderful painting to carry from beginning to end. It’s been about a year since I started putting down my first ideas for it, nearly three months since I started working in earnest on the final product, and I can tell that I’ve grown as an artist in that time. HereContinue reading “a little wild and in motion”

girl with the owl

Watercolor of the ‘girl holding an owl’ meme.

ruth

I’m drawn to using yellow eyes. Aren’t they arresting?

sola

I really like the way the texture in her hair turned out. And, no, I can’t do hands at all yet. I first envisioned this as a girl with vines of flowers woven through her hair and adorning her clothes, a sort of woman of the meadows. But instead she became a woman of theContinue reading “sola”