Delicate

Continuing with my exotic theme of tropical flowers and animals as well as my quest to grow as an artist by perusing a new medium and portraits, I have created the below painting.  Capturing emotion is such a challenge and hope to get better at this with practice.  I decided to paint my beautiful niece from a stunning photo I took of this intense stare.  I decided to paint the orchid to represent her beautiful exotic delicate and unique little lady that she is becoming. Hope everyone enjoys it.

Peacock Dance

I love peacocks therefore I just had to paint one in watercolor - the new medium I'm trying to conquer.  I decided to paint a peacock I've painted in the past in oil back in 2011 but I believe this one came out a little bit better :)

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Color Punch

Attempting to brighten up my place as well as to try something new and different, I created the below colorful abstract acrylic painting.  I love all colors and choosing the right colors to make this go well together was a challenge.  I changed the blue background several times but finally got the right color balance.  Hope to enjoy this for a while, now to get matching home accents :)

Flourish

Finally, after a few months I'm making a new posting!

I think portraits are the most difficult things to draw/paint, not only because of its complexity but it's also very difficult to capture emotion.  Inspired by other fellow artists I decided to try new art mediums, pencils/color pencils/inks and water colors, after failing terribly at painting a portrait with acrylic.  I first started drawing something that has been done before in my family, my grandmother.

Then I decided to draw my niece from a picture I had taken of her previously and incorporated a flower to represent how beautifully she's been flourishing as a young lady.  Hope everyone enjoys it.