I have several new shots to share but this is begging to be posted on its own. The rest pale in comparison but, hey, that's how it works.

This version is not quite as vibrant in the blues as the full-size, non-web version but you get the point.

Lukas 1862 watercolor and Winsor & Newton Artist watercolor on Moleskine watercolor journal, covering about 2/3 of the page. I'll add another painting to this page before I put any text, thinking about layout again.

Just a quick watercolor sketch with Sakura Koi waterbrush (12 color set) because the male cardinal landed on the fence this morning. I've seen his mate dozens of times and wondered why I didn't see him, but he was there today in the bright sun. So I decided to jot a quick note of how he looked on the fence and then got to painting a bit of fence and foliage too for context. Before I knew it I had this little painting.

One element of what will become eventually a good painting in my watercolor journal and maybe some other mediums as well.

Mirrored to myartistdate.

Daylily Page in my 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Moleskine watercolor journal with Daniel Smith watercolors. I'm loving it. The pages are so thick I am painting happily on both sides without anything going through to ruin the previous art, so even though I'm doing lots in it I've only used up eight sheets so far -- sixteen pages. Lots of pages in the journal.

I want one of the small ones, same size as my thin-paper one but maybe bound on the narrow side for panoramic layout.

Blue Butterfly for June Colored Pencil Challenge at WetCanvas.com, reference posted by Queen_Bee. Derwent Artist colored pencils on ProArt sketchbook paper.

Here's the page both of them are on together.



Mirrored to robertsloan2 and myartistdate.

Tomato from Colored Pencils June Challenge on WetCanvas.com, from a reference by WC member Olika.

Derwent Artist colored pencils on white ProArt wirebound sketchbook paper. 2 1/2" x 4". I deliberately used the blank paper for some whites and didn't try to blur the strokes into a textureless look, this was intended to be textured and show some of the crosshatching and white flecks in areas.

Continuing to unpack. Today my wood box of 120 Derwent Artist colored pencils came upstairs and I happily discovered after I slid its cardboard protective box off and stored it again that I can spread out all three trays on my table with a tray or two on the bed. This will make using large sets of anything a whole lot easier from now on!

I also got my Watercolour Magic DVDs yesterday and have watched the first four of nine -- Bob Davies is a great teacher and the DVDs are eye-openers. Even if you're good at watercolor, Bob will fill in gaps. Also his videos help a lot with showing even more than he explains. I'm starting to gain a lot more control of my watercolors and looking forward to trying some of the projects even though those won't be exactly salable art. Thinking of doing some of the exercises in a Cotman watercolor pad I've still got.

You can find Bob's free videos at http://www.idrawandpaint.com which is where I found out about them. He's got lots of free ones up too.

Mirrored in robertsloan2 and myartistdate

Arkansas Botanicals Page Two from my watercolor journal is finished, with the addition of a sweet gum leaf from a tree in Paul's yard and a slate pebble I picked up out of his driveway when we went over there this morning to feed horses. Paul's gone for two weeks on a trip to a big annual horse show. Kitten took me out to set up my new bank account here and we stopped on the way to feed the horses and Paul's two dogs and cat before finishing the errand.

So while I was there, I had my small Moleskine journal with the thin pages and the little 12 color Sakura Koi pocket box. I painted Charlie, a Welsh pony that's a Chocolate Palomino -- light brown shading on the body, ice-blonde mane and tail, very dramatic little horse smaller than the other horses. He moved while I was shading his head so I missed noticing the white blaze on the upper part of his forehead, but I'll get it when I paint him again in color.



He's equine, I did him from life and you can tell what it is. I'm proud.



While out there, I also painted a buttercup that I picked in the short lane up from the house toward the horse barn. It had been stepped on anyway so I didn't feel bad about picking it, painting it and tossing it. Unfortunately my scanner turned the warm yellow which isn't much darker than the lemon yellow into what looks like bright orange, I'm not sure why. It doesn't look that garish in life.

Continuing yesterday's page with Prismacolor archival pens in sepia, brown, orange, blue and black, and Daniel Smith watercolors in Quinacridone Gold, Quinacridone Burnt Orange, Burnt Umber, Ultramarine and Sodalite Genuine. I deliberately set up the pecans to give me an unusual shape for the remaining space and have another couple of inches next to this -- taller on the right.

Whatever I do next on this page will be another life painting of something about our new house and its yard. A couple of lilies bloomed in the front so I might go down there later or tomorrow and paint one of them from life. Or do the dog romping in the yard, another branch of the pecan tree or a pebble from the driveway. Just something cool from life that's here in our new house. This spread is themed.

Sakura Koi watercolor on Canson Montval cold press (Not) watercolor paper. 4" x 6"

Two wildflowers in pen and watercolor in my watercolor journal.



Horse Kiss, watercolor on cold press paper, 4" x 6"

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Today's art, first one resuming my Daily Art habit since I'm done constructing furniture and will be doing art before continuing to unpack now and through the month. Yay for daily art. I missed doing it. So much so that I did some pieces in between when I went offline and when I got the scanner up again last night.



Blue Iris from life on 4" x 6" ProArt sketchbook page in Derwent Inktense dry. Drew this the day they took down the Internet, May 24th. Kitten picked it up when it got knocked off its long stem and I put it in an orange pill bottle, then fell in love with the color contrasts and textures.



Colored pencil drawings from the day we first got into the house, the 27th. Sascha is from a phone camera photo, the rock and mortar with lichen is the fireplace wall from life and the M&Ms were my treat for watching the kids.



Oil pastel orange lilies that Kitten gave me on the 26th. I drew them with Erengi oil pastels while she and Karl loaded the truck, then we drove to Arkansas and the big ProArt sketchbook 8 1/2" x 11" that these are in got some coffee spatters on the last few pages on the bottom. Thankfully upside down and it didn't lose that much space per page. I guess sketchbooks suffer along the way and get messed up sometimes.



Just the leaves from the pecan tree and vine on it from my watercolor journal page, scanned in by themselves before I painted the rest of the page.



When we first got in, on the first day Kitten bought some furnishings from Wal Mart including very soft black bath mat rugs for both bathrooms, mine and the main one. My room is Cat Central. So as I was going in the bathroom to get coffee (got my own coffeemaker in there now! Yay there's room!), little Miss Gemini decided that soft rug was one of her favorite sleep spots. I almost stepped on her.

She didn't move so I went back for a graphite pencil and sketchbook and managed to draw her before she yawned, turned her head, stretched cute and stood up going from very short and wide to longer and thinner in one of those fluid cat motions that nothing else can manage. She looked so cute there.

She still loves the spot. I think I want to draw her using white and pale orange Derwent Drawing Pencils on black Stonehenge paper the next time I catch her sleeping in there. She's so dark that most of her is highlights and orange markings, it should be fun doing her on black paper.

Enjoy! The scanner's up so I'm back to daily art even if it's sometimes a quick cat gesture.

I know some of y'all don't read robertsloan2 but on Friday, I announced I was holding off on Daily Art till after the move. That's when I found out that I wasn't moving on Monday the 1st of June but Monday as in tomorrow, the 25th of May.

Right now I have succeeded in packing up all of my good art supplies carefully including a trip bag with anything I want to use for sketching or watercolor sketching on the way. Other mediums are already packed in the way I stored them before or have been packed into a two-tier Tote Express and five other canvas bags and the Sahara Chair.

So I'm actually ready to go and today is a day for resting up before tomorrow's exertion actually making the trip.

I will be back to doing Daily Art after I get settled in and unpacked. There may be some bed rest days or not, I won't know till I get there and unpacked. But I might get back to some daily sketching even if there are because I miss doing it, that's been a good habit I've got to thank artsomofo for -- I didn't think I could keep it up till I did it for Mofo and Spring Mofo and this time I just kept on with the habit.

Thanks all.

Onion in six colors of Derwent Coloursoft on white ProArt wirebound sketchbook paper. I put samples of the colors on the page for my 33d HubPages article, http://hubpages.com/hub/Drawing-With-A-Limited-Palette-in-Colored-Pencils which gets me exactly 1/3 done with them -- one day late. I'm now only three articles behind, very close to catching up if I can do more tonight.

I also packed some things.

Here's the full Onion Page:



Read the article and try drawing it at home. It's from a reference posted by http://www.wetcanvas.com member orangepassion and posted as one of the challenge photos for the Colored Pencil Challenge, May 2009. It's in the Reference Image Library if you try it later on after the challenge thread is closed though.

This one's for yesterday and also was an example for a HubPages article:



Just a scene of a yard with a tree, formal planted patch, path and garden shed in Derwent Drawing Pencils on the same sketchbook paper, previous page. Made it up so it doesn't look as real as scenes from references or life. X-post from robertsloan2 journal.

Horse in Winter
4" x 6"
Derwent Aquatone woodless watercolor pencils
Canson Montval cold press 140lb watercolor paper.

From the current Weekend Drawing Event challenge, posted by Michael_Akin.

Woolly Rhino Sketch, Derwent Drawing Pencils, ProArt wirebound sketchbook. 4" wide. Drawn from imagination, and I know there are some flaws.

I haven't been to bed but have written two more articles for the HubChallenge, bringing my score up to 18 out of 100. It's going well. I think if I keep pounding it that I'll get ahead and compensate for the time I spend packing and doing other things and offline moving.

4" wide, Derwent Tinted Charcoal Pencils on white ProArt wirebound sketchbook paper. Daily art for the 17th. Continuing to do articles for the http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/14183 HubChallenge over at http://www.hubpages.com where I've added 16 articles so far, many of them on art topics. Including one on the Tinted Charcoal Pencils that I used this bison to illustrate. I love how it turned out. Photo reference from the http://www.wetcanvas.com Reference Image Library posted by QueenBeeArt.