Tea Painting

Two horse paintings I did using tea.

Portrait of a Girl

This portrait is done with Faber-Castell graphite aquarelle.  I used a white pen for some of the highlights.  The source photo come from paint my photo.

Tired Fox in Watercolor

Racing Though the Sky

Three Roses

My boyfriend wanted a painting we could print out to use for wedding cards.  So we both thought that roses would be the best for this.  I decided to paint these roses as a mixed media piece.  Using watercolor, gouache, and pen.

Cape

I have this beautiful green cape that my mom made me a few years ago.  I like to make my sister pose for pictures every once and a while. This is not her favorite thing to do because it is always on the hottest day of the year.  But I think the pictures turn out great.

Pan Pastels

I've never been one to use pastels because I did not like using the sticks.  But I liked the way pastels looked.  So I decided to try pan pastels and I really like the way they work.  Much simpler to use then the sticks.  But I do need some more practices with them.

Toned Gray Sketchbook

Pen Sketches from June

Sketches from June

Pen

Pen on toned paper.

Watercolor

India Ink with brush.

Cattle Skull with Feathers

Majestic Stag

Iris in Watercolor

Poppy in Watercolor

Dreamcatcher

I ordered a set of Edding brush pens online about a week ago.  I've never really used brush pens before but I wanted to try them out.  Below you can see my first drawing with them.  I enjoyed the way the pens work and the colors are great.

Sketches from Sketchbooks

Cattle Skull

The skull is done with pens and the background is watercolor.  Liked it with and without color, so I uploaded both pictures.

Cardinal in Watercolor

Bales of Hay

A photograph I took a few years ago at my grandparents.  I really love it because it looks a little like a fairy tail. 

Fine Art America

I now have prints for sale on Fine Art America.  I've never really sold prints before so this will be a new experience for me.  People have always asked if I sell my work or if I give it away.  So I though it was time to try to sell some.  I believe Fine Art America could be a great way to do this.  The site allows me to just post my work and they do the rest.  The prints, shipping, and payment is all handed by them.

Here is the link to my store. 

Please check it out and share if you like what you see.

Garden 2016

Garden

This is my first garden in Germany.  In the US I would have a large garden every year so I'm really excited to have one here this year.

The two pictures below are potatoes.  I have over 400 potato plants in my garden this year.  Which is not normal for me but they are part of a project I'm working on.  This project is for my master thesis looking at Maria Thun biodynamic calendar.

Below I have a few rows of spinach.

Then a few rows of fava beans or broad beans.

Below rhubarb can be seen.  Fun fact:  My family always uses horse manure on rhubarb with the belief that it will grow better.  But my family is not the only ones, many farmers also believe this.

A patch of mint that came up on its own.

We also have a field of fava beans, below.

At the beginning of the gardening season my boyfriend and I completely took up the old garden.  Digging up all the old plants so we could have a whole new arrangement.  I did not plant asparagus this year but as you can see below it is coming up on its own.  Which is fine because I have been picking it to eat.

Below is a piece of asparagus I picked today.  I was impressed with have long it is.  It must be a good 3 foot.

All the asparagus I picked today.

My helper Clara.

Flower Garden

I don't do much with the flower garden.  My boyfriends mother is the one who takes care of them.  But I do like to take pitchers of all the flowers.

There was a bunch of bumblebees in these pink and purple flowers today.