Snow and Watercolors 209 and 210

Winter Has Arrived with Gusto

Switzerland, Austria, and southern Germany are all laden with deep, heavy snow. Treacherous roads, avalanches, toppling trees, and unprepared drivers have caused numerous accidents and loss of life. Where we are the snow is just pretty, not too deep.

So, watercolours this week have a snowy theme.

Well, some don't.

Watercolor 208

Garden....

.....As the snow falls thickly on us

Some parts were preserved with masking fluid as background washes were laid.

New Year, New Art (sorta)

From Leah:

I don't have much art to share on the blog at the moment, but I did do a few little artistic New Year's projects!

The chart is for how my day went, using the color key on the right and filling in a square for that day. A friend showed me the idea, and I liked it and decided to give it a try!

The jar and the colorful paper are for writing down something enjoyable/positive about my day. Even if it was a bad day. I've been wanting to do that for a couple of years.

I hope to do much more art this year!

From Sarah:

I, also, do not have much art for the blog, except for some new Bullet Journal doodlies:

practicing my "ribbons"

and I decided to do the color-a-pixel-according-to-how-your-day-went thing this year, too, haha

Also, I doodled a thing on my phone. I don't like it, but I thought I'd share anyway. XD

May you make many fine (and not-as-fine) projects this year!

Watercolor 207

Fruit still life from life

Epiphany

Blessed Beginning of the Divine Manifestation Season

Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh, well, sort of....

Watercolor 206

(By the way, to answer an earlier comment: any of the watercolours you see here may be like something else you have seen. These are all practices works, so it is justifiable to copy or base them on other's works. They may not, of course, be legitimately sold or shown as original works, but these are not.)

Twelfth Day of Christmas

The End of Christmas

Tomorrow is Epiphany. Time to prepare Kings' Bread.

And Paint. Here is Watercolor 205, and this time it does represent the weather we are having: it snowed heavily today! Nice and wintery. Boys are planning first skiing of the season.

Eleventh Day of Christmas

Watercolors from Last Year, Unnumbered

These just turned up in a paper pad.

and Watercolor 204

A very small work

Tenth Day of Christmas

A Special Card

From special students.

New Year's Treats

The pink pig and clover form are symbols of good luck here. The cherubs are marzipan, but how does one eat an angel's head?

And Watercolor 203

A five minute life study of a moving subject.

Ninth Day of Christmas

Watercolors 201 and 202

Just when we finally have some snow on the ground that makes things look white for the first time this winter, here are not-representative paintings. Both of these are quite small.

Twelve Days of Christmas, Chibi Drawing

A chibi-fied rendition of the old Twelve Days of Christmas poem/song:

p.s. I love how the little drummer turned out XD

HAPPY NEW YEAR! <3