six and three quarters

This is a postcard from the land of first grade. Strange, funny, sometimes puzzling, but never dull. 

I think I'm planning a series of drawings.

The cat ears? That's for next time.

thank you Nora...

IF: tree

or, as it turned out today: trees

I pass this field every saturday on my way out to the horse farm, actually sometimes twice a day. Today there were some buckskin ponies grazing nearby, and i thought they'd match nicely.

Here's a quick study done out in the nice fall weather. This is acrylic on cardboard, kind of a nice change from watercolors.

color bunny

After an inky november, I'm ready to get back to some color. Here is yesterdays shy rabbit making a chatty friend. On second look, I think this would benefit from a clean sky; white or very light grey. What do you think?

Aah, that's better. I've been working with watercolor for so long, it took me a while to remember the acrylic advantage: you can always paint over it :)

IF: shy

"shy" made me think of a nocturnal animal.....

the bears secret

The well kept secret to the success to the american black bear's hibernating success: lots of halloween candy.......

Illustration friday up next, have a nice weekend!

neigh!

Here's something else we've been spending time on around here.....

'hope you had a happy Halloween too!

IF: haunt

I just had too many ideas for "haunt"...... and then the family halloween crowded everything else out. 

And then I remembered  ...

 A spread from The 12 Days of Christmas in South Carolina, written by Melinda Long, Sterling Publishing.