Dream Vision in Color

I finally watercolored this last night. It gives me a nice feeling.

Here's what I said on Flickr:

"Here is the color version of my dream vision from last Thursday morning. I have had some good input on possible meanings, and I'm thinking the figure does represent me, and I'm not sure of quite which way to go, but it is not the grass (the circumstances) holding me back, but rather some lack of mine. And that's something I have to work on . . . . "

I have to mention that my dear friend Laura looked up some dream interpretations, and found that grass can indicate success. So that's hopeful! Thanks, Laura!

Dream/Vision/Mind Picture ?

I woke up this morning with this picture in my mind. I know I was awake when I saw it, but I had only just woken up. So maybe it was the tail end of a dream? I saw the picture pretty vividly, so I wanted to get it down. I started drawing at the train stop this morning, worked on it some more on the subway ride (since I had a great train sketch to do--see my Flickr photostream for that drawing), then finished the linework up at lunchtime. I plan to watercolor it to match the colors I saw, which were green for the grass and red for the dress and brown for the hair.

What do you think it could mean? I wondered if it was supposed to be me, but I'm not sure . . . she doesn't have glasses and her hair is longer . . .

Shade Dwelling Finished

This morning before leaving for work I put what I think are the finishing touches on this watercolor. I enjoyed doing this, but it took much longer than most of the things I have been doing lately . . .

House/shadow progress

I am making progress here, adding more color, using artistic license to liven the colors up some. I should be finished later this week and will post the final version.

Starting a house portrait

I started this watercolor today. To be more precise, I started the coloring today. I did the pencil drawing months ago! I thought I would post some progress pictures so you could see how it comes along. All the purple is wetbruch on dry paper, the sky is all wet on wet. This is not watercolor paper, however, it is heavy (80 lb.) sketchbook paper.

I was motivated by two weekly challenge assignments, EDM #122- draw something with shade as a prominent element, and Artwords #56 - Dwelling. Any and all comments are more than welcome!

Found my Pitt Pens!

I'm so glad I found my Pitt pens, I really do like them! But I'm glad I misplaced them, too, or I might never have tried to combine watercolor and ballpoint! Well yesterday and today were kind of black and white days, however, so no watercolors; last night I did this Pitt pen drawing on the train on the way home.

New step--Ballpoint Pen & Watercolor!

I have temporarily misplaced my new Pitt pens, so last night on the way home I was relegated to ballpoint pen for my subway sketches. So I thought, well, maybe I can use watercolor with the ballpoint, too! And in fact, it worked fine; I actually kind of like the effect of the blue lines with the watercolor! The ballpoint did not smear at all getting wet, unlike the Pilot Razor Point pen, which smears badly when it does . . .