The Sultan's Elephant

The Sultan's Elephant was a street show put on by the Royal de Luxe theatre company.   The show consisted of a giant puppet girl and a giant mechanical elephant that they built.  It only showed in a few cities including London and Nantes, France.  Anyway I randomly came across pictures and youtube videos of the show and I am in awe of it.  I wish I could have been there when they performed.  Here is a video of the performance:

Anyway the painting above was based on the elephant in the show.  I was so inspired by it and....I also love elephants.  

The painting was done with pen, watercolor and colored pencil on charcoal paper.

She Sells Seashells....

I finished the painting for James's mom, Teresa.  I didn't really like how the scallop was going when I first started but I think it turned out ok.  Although I had imagined it completely different.  I'm posting the whole painting and then a closeup of the three shells.

Um so the pictures didn't turn out so great because you can see my hands but the lighting was better this time.  

Whole thing was done with watercolor and some colored pencil was used on the scallop.

Poppies will put them to sleep

So my mom asked me to do a few paintings for my parents' bedroom and bathroom which they recently redecorated.  She gave me a couple of ideas and I'm pretty sure the word "poppies" came up at some point from my mom.   The colors of their bedroom and bathroom are dark brown and red so I thought poppies would actually be perfect.   Here is what turned out:

I think it turned out pretty good but I'm sure it'll look even better once it is framed.   I will post a picture when I have it framed.  

Oh yeah and stay tuned because I am going to try to make this rainbow cake this weekend because it is freakin sweet

http://omnomicon.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-make-rainbow-cake.html

I'd love to hear comments and feedback on the poppies!

sunflower

So I decided I needed something new for my artblog and I also needed to break out the watercolors again so I painted this last night

It's pretty good I guess, it was mostly just for practice since I haven't painted in over a year.  (It also made me realize I need new watercolors!)