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My notes and demos from yesterday's watercolor sketching workshop at #waltdisneyfeatureanimation. We were talking about quickly blocking in people from life in natural situations. #watercolor #watercolorpainting #pleinair #illustration #disney #disneystud

Pinecones watercolour

Watercolor/india ink 5.5x5.5" (trying to remember to put dimensions for web)

Orchid Garden, pen, ink, watercolor, colored pencil on arches cotton rag140 gram hot press

For some reason, this is one of my favorite works. It's a total fluke, doodle on a spare piece of watercolour paper, totally unplanned

Random Miami Beach Art Deco Facade. Watercolor and Ink.

Water Lily. Night Harvest. 2017 Sketchbook. Coffee and Ink. @ Ania Pawlik 2017

Watcher of the night... #unfinishedart #pensketch #blackinkonly #animalart

2008 ink and watercolors

A woman wearing cheongsam. ink.watercolor

Watercolors & Colored pencils portrait of Amelie.

Page from Moleskine, used inks and water which made the page buckle.

Georgetown Waterfront Washington DC Citiescapes by Grazia Montalto

Seahorse time :-)

Underwater science at play here…

Butterflies, this-that and the next thing!

Perched between silence and song, the blue jay waits—half mischief, half mystery.

Relaxed tension. Two parents at a national chess competition. Their kids squared off at the board, and so did they — one leaning back, shoe propped up, trying for calm; the other sitting stiff, watchful. The game played out in more ways than one.

The lake was busy with light, the grasses busy with wind, but the boat sat quiet against the shore. There is a gift in this tension: to be held still while everything moves, to be carried without effort, to find rest in the very heart of motion.

4 year old Henry engaged fully with thick applications of watercolor and oil pastels. He said it was a stormy sea with a small boat. This was at the onset of the pandemic, when we were all a bit uncertain and confined to our homes. I was reminded of an insight by Kierkegaard written in the early 1800s: “When the sailor is out on the sea and everything is changing around him, as the waves are continually being born and dying, he does not stare into the depths of these, since they vary. He looks up at the stars. And why? Because they are faithful – as they stand now, they stood for the patriarchs, and will stand for coming generations. By what means then does he conquer changing conditions? Through the eternal: By means of the eternal, one can conquer the future, because the eternal is the foundation of the future.”

Look at this cutey—a shoebill stork done in watercolors. I wanted to do something different from botanicals but still practice simple watercolors.

It called to me on a rustic fall day. Doodling with watercolors.

Watercolour of a Grevillea species that I found on a day trip Margaret River.

Watercolour painting of a Prickly Hakea. I started drawing different plants last month from the area where I live. This month I am turning them into watercolours, with the Hakea being one of the first.

Wee watercolour sketch of Donkey Orchids from the forest near Greenbushes.

The start of a new project drawing and painting plants in water colours. These leaves are from a Wattle also called an Acacia in the nearby forest.

A rainy day looking out the studio. It seemed appropriate to use water colour and pen.

I got a little emotional when I heard the Lahaina banyan tree would make it through the Maui fire. I found a reference and painted a watercolor of the new growth. I come from a Navy family and was born in Hawaii. Let me know if I got the transparency and shading right or if it is aesthetically pleasing.

Rebelle 6 by Escape Motions is out. It's a blast! Pigmented blending, watercolor granulation, nanopixel dimensions, new transformation options. Really enjoying it. (Drew this in it.)