Jellyfish

I am super excited about how this piece turned out.  I love it so much.  It took about 6 hours in total to complete.  It started out as a pencil drawing.  Next I used watercolor paint to paint the blue background.  I painted around the jellyfish.  I then painted the actual jellyfish. The next day, I realized that the tops of the two bottom jellyfish were just shaped really awkward, so I took out my paint again and made them a bit more rounded.  I then inked the drawing, which took a long time because the ink pens I have don't really like to work on top of paint.  After I inked them, I did some finishing touches with pencil crayon.  I really, really like this piece, and I'm sad now that I don't get to keep it, because it's a birthday gift for someone else. Wah. Oh well. I hope they like it as much as I do.  

"Snake With Tiger Lilies"

Completed on October 10th, 2013

Doing this piece was really fun.  First I sketched it with pencil.  I then used water color paint.  It was kind of tricky, because the water color paint covered up the pencil lines, which made it hard to ink afterwards because I couldn't see some of the lines.  I like how I painted the snake in a really loose style, but the ink is very tight and detailed.  The only thing I don't like about this piece is the snake's belly underneath the top right tiger lily. It doesn't really match up with how a snakes belly would actually be.