"Horse Love" by Linda T Snider-Ward, Louisiana artist

Horse Love is painted from my reference photos after attending a horse show nearby. This sweet little girl seemed to have such a connection with her horse. The painting turned out a bit too sweet, but I enjoyed painting it. More of my artwork can be seen on my website and my Etsy shop

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Winter Wildlife - Stephanie Ruble

I was thinking about a girl starting to make a snowman when I wondered what would happen if a baby polar bear crossed her path.

I'd like to think they might be friends, that is if the mama bear or the girl's mother are not around.

St. Patty's Day

Hello WaWe friends!
Just a quick watercolor here... sort of St. Patty's Day? :) It's been a while since I've participated here, tho I've been checking in to see what's happening. I've been working on an illustration job recently, creating the illustrations for children's song charts, which has been keeping me busy - I suppose that's a good thing huh? Love seeing everyone's work and ideas. It's such a blessing to be a part of this with all of you!
Happy painting!
Julia

greeting card / game - sruble

I’ve been painting tiny pictures lately (see the elephant here and the bunnies here), in order to fit painting for fun into my schedule. My third tiny painting was a girl blowing a bubble with her bubblegum. I broke out my watercolors and colored pencils and painted a picture so horrible that I had to rip it up. Seriously. All it takes to ruin a small watercolor painting is a couple of misplaced brush strokes. However, I still liked the sketch, so I made the bubblegum girl into a digital illustration. The image is 2″ x 2″ like the paintings.

I like how she turned out, but I still wanted to paint something. A picture of a cow blowing a bubblegum bubble seemed like a fun take on the original, and worked out well, because it fits several art prompts all at once (see list below the picture). I used watercolor and colored pencil to make the image. I’m happy with the way both pictures turned out, but I have to say, the more I look at them, the weirder they look. Of course, if you looked at a photograph showing a side view of someone blowing a bubblegum bubble, that would probably look weird after a while, too.

The CBIG prompt this month is fantasy – a cow blowing bubblegum bubbles is definitely fantasy! Bubblegum Girl also works for fantasy. She wants to blow the biggest bubble ever and win the national bubblegum bubble blowing contest (which they actually have – I saw it on TV a couple of years ago).

The Watercolor Wednesdays prompt for last week was to create a greeting card image for a child – the bubblegum sort of looks like a speech balloon, where the cow could say, “Happy Birthday!” Bubblegum Girl also works for this week’s prompt, to illustrate a favorite toy or game … not that gum qualifies as a toy, but trying to blow the biggest bubble could be a game, so I think that counts (or at least it works for me – I went to art school; I can justify anything).

The Illustration Friday prompt this week is brave – that cow is really brave to be blowing bubblegum bubbles. What if it pops and goes all over her face? Bubblegum Girl also works for brave. She knows what will happen if the bubble as big as her head pops!

Are tiny paintings the next big thing? Maybe not, but I’m having fun with them

CAKE

Birthday card for the hungry.

Scenes with Character

I created four scenes with my characters. I'm pretty happy with the first two, but not too sure about the last two. With the last two, I was working outside of my comfort zone: experimenting with the compositions/vantage points. I had a hard time moving the black paint around on the extreme close-ups of the dog, and I'm not sure the character looks the same as the ones in the first two. But, experimentation is how we learn, isn't it? Overall I'm pleased with this experiment!

Dear Santa

Helping a buddy out at Christmas time. Digger can't write so what's a gal to do. Happy Holidays.

Let it Snow

I actually got the painting done for Let it Snow ... now for Santa's letter ...

Let it Snow

I'm a little behind, sorry, this time of year gets a little nutty. But here are the B&W's for Let It Snow. I'm going to try to get the painting done in the next few days.

Field day

'Field day' 5 x 7 watercolor.
Debbie

Girly/Spring Sketch

Just a sketch now, but this is what I had in mind for combining Girly and Spring into one illustration. I did a couple of other sketches as well, using the same characters, trying to be consistent. I'll make sure to post them (and the final piece of this illustration!) soon, I hope.

Snowballs in color | Catching up

A little late, but here's the final color illo from this sketch for prompt "Snowballs." I wanted to make her outwear outfit really colorful, but I'm not too pleased with it. Next time I'll do some fashion sketches first! She seems happy, though... :-)

Sketch for "Snowballs"

Here's my sketch for "Snowballs." I was also thinking about building snowmen. :-)

Dancing

I'm actually more of a spring/summer kind of person, but fall is my husband's favorite season, so I thought I'd do a little dancing for fall. :-)

"Dancing"

When I was a child I wanted to do ballet, but because of my height I was recommended to better do athletic sports. *umpf

Maybe thats why the little girl looks a bit concerned if she's doing right.

@ all Have a great week! ;)

Umbrella

Yellow umbrellas are just perfect: a spot of sunshine when the skies are dark and wet. I think it's safe to close that umbrella now. :-)

Magic Wand

I have this sketch, an idea for a Christmas card. I had not done much with it, but this week's theme made me try a color version. It's hard sometimes to work the light and dark areas, and in this case I think I like what I did with the skirt, but not so much with the sweater.

Anyway, it was good to finally work some color into it and maybe I'll finish it up -- not surprisingly, there's supposed to be a beagle on this illustration as well :-)