Illustration Friday: CAMOUFLAGE

Watercolor on paper.
One of my all time favorite creatures in disguise:
"The leafy Sea Dragon"

Have a great weekend!

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We're movin'

This is what my studio looks like today...We sold our house!
With all of the furniture designed by my husband Manolo included.
...we'll start building a new house (and designing new furniture)
next month in the lot next to our house.

We rented a tiny log cabin deep in the woods a few blocks away from here
where we'll be living for the next six months, till our new house is built...
I will document the whole process here on the blog and on my Flickr.
I think it will be fun :o)

We'll be moving in next week.

The studio is coming along real nice,
it still needs a lot of organizing.

I might be missing in action for a couple of weeks
until we have our internet connection up and running.

Thank you for visiting :o)
I'll be back sooner than later with more art to share.

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Bye bye birdies

Last one in the birdie-a-day week series.
It was fun!

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Illustration Friday: REJECTION

Watercolor on paper.
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Robin

Windsor & Newton •Black Indian Ink• on paper

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Bird call

Windsor & Newton •Black Indian Ink•
on paper.

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Blackbird

Windsor & Newton •Black Indian Ink• on paper.

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Je suis belle

Happy Monday friends!
Beautiful Juliette was made with Black India Ink
from Windsor & Newton on paper.

And on a different note:

My friend Amy from the Flickr Embroidery Group
interviewed me for the wonderful Feeling Stitchy Blog.
If you want to read the interview click here.

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For you...

This flower is for you.
For all of you who visit this blog regularly
& for those visiting for the first time.
Thank you.

Windsor & Newton •Black Indian Ink• on paper.

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Songbird

Ink on paper.
I will give the old watercolors a rest this week
to draw a series of black ink birds.
Yep, a birdie-a-day week :o)

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Illustration Friday: SUIT

Mr. & Mrs. Guido Cardinale
were done in watercolor on paper for this week's
Illustration Friday topic.
Thanks for visiting!

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Intertwined

Collage, watercolor & ink on paper.

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Agapanthus

Agapanthus flower
against a weathered wall
of an hacienda from the 1500s..
Taken today, a few blocks aways from our home.
The beauty of that pink old layered wall
just takes my breath away
every time I walk past it.

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Down under...

This is a little experiment.
I'm drawing with a soft No.2 pencil (I usually work with a very hard 6H pencil),
coloring all the different elements with watercolor
and giving the whole drawing a watercolor wash
with the background color (in this case: turquoise mixed with white).
I'm loving that as I apply the background wash it picks up a little of the watercolor
from the different elements and the colors mix up a little.
Did that make any sense?

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Noche

Watercolor on paper.

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Doodle garden

A little doodle I did this morning just to wish you
a happy monday :)

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Ultima amapola

Watercolor on paper.
The last one in the poppy-a-day series :)

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Lil' pebble critters

Remember these ?
They were recycled into these lil' guys :)

Tomorrow...the last poppy-a-day post.
Thank you for all the nice comments,
they were so much fun to make.

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Poppy vine

Black indian ink on paper.

You can see some fun color variations here.

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Illustration Friday: YOUR PARADISE

Yeah baby!
Watercolor & ink on paper.

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White poppies

Watercolor & ink on paper.

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