Missy on Christmas

I had to give mummy a severe talking to about her Christmas cards. 

I told her, don't you know, if it had me on there, it would naturally be a winner.

I am pleased to say she took my advice - and this card is better by far!

Farmer's Market

and today, here it is - the finished painting.

 Farmer's Market

It will be added to my Gallery site
Pat Elliott Paintings.

FM 4

I decided to incorporate a few of the techniques I had learned recently.
In this stage you can see the marbled top , which I originally learned to paint in my painting of the pears - The Three Muses.

I did start to paint a few of the lumpy bits on the gourd, but stopped, so I could photograph the marble stage!

FM 3

here I've painted the mid section, using a beautiful cadmium yellow.

All the paints I use are Winsor and Newton Artists Quality.
The paper is usually Arches Aquarelle Rough - but this one was painted on a Strathmore watercolour pad, given to me as a gift.

FM 2

In this stage, I have painted a light wash of a mix of sap green and cad yellow to describe the green of the gourd.

I'm enjoying painting this, its such a fun subject.
Might even get painted again, as part of a group. I like props that can be painted again and again!

at the farmer's market

At the farmer's market we went to were all sorts of delicious foods, straight from the farm.
Most were edible, but this little gourd wasn't.
I brought him home because he looked so pretty (in an ugly kind of way)  and a painting was in the offing!

Here's the drawing

and here's the sky painted in

Christmas is coming...

and I thought - cards! Why not try and paint some for Christmas?
So I ordered a pack of 10, not because of that few friends, but because I wasn't sure how well my small paintings would come out.
These cards were only 5x3 inches, you see!

Christmas cards should have some religious theme - after all, its the reason for the season, yes?

So on with the painting.. the barn, the crib, the infant Jesus, the Holy Family, the animals, a feed trough, three kings, a star, a starry night sky with aurora effects and shrubbery in the landscape. Everything but the kitchen sink!

I stepped back from the painting and laughed - it looks to me as if a complete novice has painted it! It is not my best!
So I show it to you, my blogging friends, just so you know, some days, the painting doesn't quite come out on paper as you had it in your head! :lol: