Dogs with toys in Aquarelle

 

  

This happy dog, proudly skipping home with his chicken-toy, his feet not touching the ground - was painted by Brenda. Makes me happy just to look at it...

Last aquarellista session we felt like painting cute animals so we painted puppies and little dogs with their toys. The paintings came out soft, colourful and funny. And we talked a lot as well!!

This is Cooky, Jutta's black and mostly white family dog, who 'came back to life'  because she painted him. It is so good to commemorate a loved one with a painting. You can see that she knew and loved him well from the perfect shape and details, drawn from knowledge...

 

This emperor Penguin  with kid was started by Sylvie. There are several challenges, like the texture on the mothers' back and she is tackling them one by one. No doubt it will be awesome when it is ready. More next week!

 

Michele-from-Bretagne painted her beloved dog Ouzo with his 'homemade' toy. Such a beautiful, heartfelt tribute to a friend.

 

This very fluffy, little rascal running with such enthusiasm after his ball is painted by Hélène, in her new favourite colour terre de sienne brûlee (or 'caramel' 😀)

 

In the meantime

Hélène also finished her Stripey shadow portrait. Quite interesting and beautiful caramel coloured, but she wasn't over the moon with it. SHe is now experimenting with 'torn up' versions, for the time being with photocopies...

 

This is a completely different version of the subject. It is created by Jutta and it is so peaceful, with its soft earthy colours, and the beautiful features of the girl, but the most important for the expression are the closed eyes...

 

Here's the finished cowl with peppers by Carol . What can I say, it is awesome on so many levels! She used the complementary colour green to obtain the strong and natural shadows, salt for the background, and an intriguing blue bowl to tie that unruly bunch of peppers together.

Celina is trying a new approach to her determined style. The colours are so much softer, and the shapes interesting and soft.I am looking forward - or just simply curious- to see what this will develop into
 

As always, Judith follows her own path. She uses the colours of her palette and sees what it brings her. Last Tuesday the results were less abstract - and especially the one up here is so very strong, I love it. (And if you click and enlarge you can see a 'rabbit' facing its fears...