Fall (in love) 2015

Beautiful Fall leaves and colorful trees!!!

49th Sketchcrawl on 24th October 2015. Lots of fun out in the cold air!!

Urban sketching- Boston

Sketching boston neighborhoods over this week.

Summer 2015 sketches

Walking the Boston freedom trail.

A one-of-a-kind american experience. A 2.5 mile red brick path connecting 16 historic locations in Boston. Sketches along the freedom trail.

My ride back home.

Urban sketching at Boston college

Boston college-Gasson hall eagle.

Bapst library

Chicken doodle soup

Get well soon? --try chicken doodles!! really relaxing and almost meditative.

The dog walker

The dog walker reference photo PMP.

Lazy Panda's

Panda's lazily munching on leaves. Ref photo Morgue file. 

Lavender fields

Lavender fields, 10 minutes--Loose watercolor in ink and wash style. Inspired from photos from PMP.

Rose

Rose sketch from life. I forgot to save the highlights on the rose petals, but added gouache white later to the highlights.  

Flowers in Acrylic

Not happy with this acrylic painting, but I am learning and brave enough to post my failures...  :)

Milk and cookies

Inspired by Lillian Bell's photo. This is my first still-life in acrylic. I found out acrylic is more forgiving than watercolors and it is so much fun!
I will have to give a try to acrylic paint more often and I did enjoy it a lot on this blizzard day.

Sketch-a-day

Windmills are always fascinating to paint. This one is something I saw on the internet, don't remember where.

Siberian Tiger sketch! Graphite on newsprint paper.

Sketch-a-day

Random animal sketches, reference photos from PMP.

Smiley, inspired by photo by Paola Richey.

A selfie portrait of back when I was in San Francisco. Very windy and tired face...

Sketches

Pen and Ink + Cretacolor watercolor pencils.

Sakura Koi watercolors.

Some random sketches / testing my tools!

Tea for two

Inspired by the photograph by Ruth Archer. 

Sketches

Based on photo by Vito. Loose style landscape sketch.