Trees are the best, man.

It was one of my best friend's birthday yesterday (yay Heather King!).  She grew up in the forests of Washington, so I thought she might like a painting of her homeland.  Here it is!  I'm about to walk it over to her house ... hopefully she will be happily surprised.

I took a few pictures of it in progress.  Here it is at Phase 1:

 And this is Phase 2:

Anyway, hope she likes it.  Anyone else want a painting?  Let moi know ;)

Spring 2012 Sketchbook Paintings

I painted quite a bit this spring, at least before Mr. Green and I had to think about moving.  Since then, unfortunately, I haven't made time for my little sketchbook. That changed this weekend when I picked the book up, opened it, and realized that there were only a few blank pages left to fill.  I don't think I've ever completely filled a sketchbook before, so I excitedly made some little drawings, and my goal is to finish it before the end of 2012. Since I've ignored my little Sketchums for months now, I almost forgot about my sketchbook paintings.  Here are a few of them:

 

Snow melting on snow drops.

 I really got into painting forests.  The first of these three is an image from the internet, but the other two are from pictures I took at the Indiana Dunes.

 This one doesn't really go with the others ... but I was struck by this image and felt the need to paint it.  The image was a meme briefly (I'm pretty sure I got it from my facebook feed), but it has sunk back into the shadows.  Things come and go on the internet.