Thursday Art Walk

 

In Which I Have Two Delightful Pics For You!

As you may recall, I had a piece lined up for this week under the MINERAL category, and I did just that! I also received a coffee from a patron on Ko-Fi with a request for a LOCATION picture. Unlike last time I had both categories, I was told to keep the categories separated, so instead of being another rock face like The Old Man Of The Mountain last week, it's two separate images!

So here is the promised MINERAL painting:

"Ruby Shard"; watercolor and watercolor pencil on cotton paper; 2023
[MINERAL]

I'm pretty happy with how both the background and the image itself came out for the Ruby Shard image. The highlights aren't too overstated, the shadows aren't too understated, and the piece itself feels both organic and sharp! It was also a lot of fun to paint, to be honest.

As for the LOCATION, I decided to delve back into the Dreamland idea I had a while back and painted this:

"Desert Dreams"; watercolor and watercolor pencil on watercolor sketch paper; 2023
[LOCATION]

The colors are very intentional here. The pink swirls, the blue around the moon, the otherworldly sandy pink of the desert, the purple half-real cacti... it's a dreamland desert seen under a particularly fiery aurora! Is it the Aurora Borealis somehow reaching into the deserts of the southwest? The Aurora Australis somewhere in the middle of Australia? Is it just a particularly lovely dream?

I leave the interpretation up to you fine folks. For me, it is just.... pretty.

If you want to have a say in what I create next week, feel free to send me a coffee over on Ko-Fi along with a message telling me what category you'd like me to work from - ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL, DEDBERT, LOCATION, GEOMETRIC, WORD - and I'll make it for next week! You can also tell me if it's okay to combine your prompt with my Guaranteed Prompt (last week's was Mineral, this week's is... also Mineral. Hmmm...). If it's not okay, I'm 100% fine with that, it just means more art for you to look at!

As for me, I think I'm going to finish this cup of decaf, write more in my manuscript, and plan what mineral to draw next week. Thank goodness there are so many and that "mineral" as a category just means any inorganic substance including alloys, metals, elements, and glass.

I hope you guys are all working hard at your art and it's all going well, whatever that art may be!

Go Enjoy Something!

FC