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Neal and his two friends - a cat named Vincent and a dog named Satchmo

10” x 15” Original wax pastel and watercolor painting on Strathmore 500 Series 4-ply Bristol illustration paper. Signed by the artist. Unframed.

In memory of the great John Lewis. (1940-2020) Original ink and watercolor portrait painting on Strathmore 500 Series 4-ply Bristol illustration paper. Signed by the artist. Unframed.

Mixed gouache, ink, pencils, oil pastel.

Colored pencil and ink on pastel paper.

Collage, ink, and gouache in the sketchbook

I stated with a rough pencil sketch then inked it with a brush pen and colored it with watercolor and gouache on a watercolor postcard. Reference I used was this excellent photo - https://www.pexels.com/photo/tree-wild-squirrel-monkey-97827/ photo by Mike from Pexels.com

Group portrait of the monster management team. Ink on watercolor paper. I pushed the contrast and colors a little in digital post-processing.

Here is a painting I made from observation on the top of Mont Bélair in Canada, just before sunset. I am painting those in a 5x8 very convenient moleskin watercolor book. I previously eyeballed the dimensions of this book at 4x6 when I had no ruler to verify but I was slightly wrong. Now the info is exact. :)

Colored inks.

This watercolour painting was inspired by another artists brilliant work (I'm afraid I don't know the name). Absolutely loved doing this piece. My mother asks why I always do sad paintings and thinks I should do more happy ones. What do you think? Comment Below

The one that guards home.

Watercolour portrait of Yoongi from BTS. I'm so happy with how it turned out, I'm not very comfortable with portraits.

Inky Lotus: Ink and watercolour

Some dudes that have no clue where they are.

This piece is part of a private collection.

Watercolors

white bear (polar?) in circle

The third painting in my series of three succulents :)

Friend & Thing on Thing

Added some color to an ink sketch from the recording session I recently attended.

Impressionist koi pond watercolor

The monsters we create A collection of creatures born from our impact and existance on Earth. This is a work in progress project, it doesn't yet have a name, but the story becomes more clear every day. Soon I will have more details about it, until then take care, this runner is taking a real shape and it's after you. He is the money maker, the greedy, the selfish buyer of unnecessary things with money he doesn't have. Sounds familyar? 7x7 cm linoprint © Maria ! Balan, 2018