Greener Pastures

Cat Heart

Playing with gouache :)

More Watercolor Fun

Watercolor & Ink fun

Sketchbook

2 pages from my sketchbook. Just having fun with ink & watercolor.

A huge tree at Kew Gardens

Inspired by Erte's brilliant designs

House

Birthday present for my father

The Dove

Very literal illustration for a nice and short poem by John Keats. It had been sitting around in a stack of unfinished drawings for quite a while, and I finally found the motivation to finish it. Here is the poem:

I had a dove, and the sweet dove died;
And I have thought it died of grieving:
Oh, what could it grieve for? its feet were tied
With a silken thread of my own hands’ weaving.
Sweet little red feet! Why should you die—
Why would you leave me, sweet bird! why?
You lived alone in the forest tree;
Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me?
I kiss’d you oft and gave you white peas;
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees?

- John Keats 

Old lady in a garden

Can't see the wood for the trees?

Another autumn inspired watercolour experiment.

Soft watercolour trees

There was a special kind of early morning sunlight one morning this autumn that made everything appear wonderfully soft and calm. I tried to capture the feeling of that here.

Having fun with markers and watercolour. Wanted to show a sunset in a stained glass/ art noveau type of way.

Angel

Stained glass inspired drawing

Summer sketches

from my sketchbook: thistles at Kew Gardens and a fluffy cat on a couch (not at Kew Gardens)

Older drawings