Sketchbook pages

Yesterday sketches of the tulips on kitchen table and group of men eating Georgian food in Georgian cafe.
It felt so good to hold the brush and pen after a week without it.

While browsing at "Wet canvas"  (press the link here) I found very interesting summary of Zbukvich's book about watercolor, I printed it and now keep repeating and trying to follow.

20 minute paintings/drawings

My fast works of the past week. I will be back to blogging after 5th April when the big project will be terminated.
Meanwhile  my quick sketches which help me to remember the joy of painting.
Tools - EDM list of  "Draw this week" tasks: Draw something Dad's. Oh, I did  the 20th challenge from list of 313 tasks... I added phone charger and persimmon for the composition. Not sure if it helped.

Red-blue abstract - #21 of the same challenge, The task was to draw something antique, but I had nothing at my place, so the doll of Russian fire-bird was chosen. Some day I will show you the photo just to make clear how the bird looks in reality)).

Flowers and tiger toy at Mom's birthday. Very quick.
Behind and under the tiger - I tried to draw anything I could see around.

The squirrel. I am a bit obsessed with drawing squirrels and birds, you know.
This one was drawn in bad evening light with one hand on the keyboard, checking mail-box. Its ears remind you the wings of the pigeon? Flying squirrel? I wanted to make fur looking furry))

I see your posts and they inspire me so much, you are so talented and do miracles with your brushes, hands and hearts.

Tonal Values Study

Studio Atelier (link) has posted great image for March challenge. How to draw white on white on almost white? Difficult. But so interesting.
We had 3 days holidays, I painted, but this hunger is hard to feed up...

These fantastic guys helped me during the painting, please enjoy!
I love music, I never managed to listen to music and do work at the same time. The combination works only with painting.


And thank you so much for your kindest comments, you give me energy and power to go on. Thank you!

Faces

New portrait. I love doing faces. Here I was experimenting with colors, using reds as dark tones. Then realizing that reds make the face expression ill and neurotic. Good that it was oil pastels, I can correct damage. Partly.
Good that the guy will never recognize himself)) Three hours work, felt so tired when finished.

I realized that I often forget to press "Follow" button, when meet new interesting blogs. The reason is simple. I subscribe in Google Reader and enjoy the pleasure of reading, but completely forget how important it is, specially in the beginning, to see your followers, to see how the number grows in time, proving that your blog moves in the right direction. Sorry about that, I will be more attentive.

Seashell

The friends of my parents brought this seashell from Cuba, where they work 40 years ago, and this present was kept as family treasure for all these years. When I was a little girl I liked to put it close to my ear and listen to the sea waves inside this rose pearl color magical thing. Few days ago when at my parents I decided to immortalize it. So said so done.

Few days ago Rhonda Carpenter pointed how to solve the problem of disappearing thumbnails in the sidebar. I was lightheaded and ignored so important information till the moment when I realized that my masterpieces are not visible in my friends' blogs and my glory fades because Google improved something.
So I followed Rhonda's clear instructions and voila! things are like they used to be. I am the "HTML star" now.
Thank you, Rhonda!

Skates

30x40cm (12"x16") Watercolor on Arches

My drawing class work, finished last Saturday. To be honest, I wanted my teacher to sign it, too. The idea, the color choices and the drawing instructions, even several important details, all are her. The class, which I try not to miss even when so busy, gives great opportunity to paint and I enjoy every moment of it. Teacher promised the drawing of live human head for tomorrow!                      

Winter does not want to leave Moscow and I feel that I am fed up with grey sky, warm clothes and dark night/short daylight. On bright side - I am busy, no time to walk, draw or paint, just sitting for hours looking into monitor. So why to care about the weather on that side of the window?

Wish you all nice and creative week-end.
We have 3 days holidays, so I hope so much to see your posts, which I missed last week.

Rookiepainter's challenge

Rookiepainter's challenge offers to draw mugs this month. And I was so glad to do this quick sketch in the evening, to participate in the challenge and to remind myself that I love painting, just too busy to do it.
I miss so much my every evening read of your blogs.