Daily Sketch: Berthe Morisot with Fan

Found this portrait in one of my impressionist books and loved the mystery and the negative space - wasn't bonkers about the yellow skin I saw in the photo of the painting - the one I found online is probably truer to form - but mine has yellow skin... oh well - it still turned out ok.

Berthe Morisot with Fan. Oil on Canvas, Edouard Manet, 1872.

My work in progress - oil pastels on watercolor paper -

First basic beginning of color after sketch - what is that thing below her foot?

Dropped in color mixes - was a challenge to decide what to mix with the black so it wasn't so boring.
When I sat back to look at it, I decided I wasn't crazy about how the pigment was laying on the rough paper so...


Smoothed the color with a metal palette knife - All that's left is to pull the tape off & add a frame.

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Stitching Project: Bear

Found a pattern for a simple bear on pinterst - decided to do one of them yesterday evening. It didn't take long and I think it turned out ok. What do you think? I'm not crazy about the shape of the arms - am going to make those a little different next time. I enjoyed doing it so much that I think I'm going to re-purpose those millions of old shirts into cute little plush dolls I can send with our church members when they go on various mission trips. And I should have enough left to put into an Operation Christmas Child box or two this fall.

Hang a Star - Illustration

The original sketch for "Hang a Star". I love to draw snowmen and little animals in scenes. Here's the completed illustration - colored digitally in photoshop.

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