Drawing Strangers (watercolors)

I recently began participating in a forum where people upload their photos to be used as subjects for drawings. While there are many photos to choose from, I found only a few have characteristics that caught my interest, like composition, quality and shadows. Here are a few watercolor drawings I did for this forum along

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Painting – Flying Fisheye (Acrylic)

This painting was inspired by various art styles, such as surrealist, impressionist and stained glass. Although I never intended to incorporate these styles on this painting, I’m very happy with the results. For this painting I brought back an object I’ve been drawing for many years, “fisheye”. Here it  appears flying, where it is usually

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Painting – Snail on mountain (Acrylic)

This simple painting was created as a way to explore the opacity/transparency of the acrylic paints I was using, and to create another colorful design to decorate my walls.  This painting was actually started right before the previous post Colorful Flower, but I finished it right around the same time.  The idea for this painting

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Gráfica Chicha (Sharpie Art)

The drawings on this post were inspired by a design style know as “gráfica chicha” (more on that later). I used this style as an exploration into neon colors with solid black backgrounds. For this set I used my own design ideas and patterns, and attempted to keep designs simple without a specific theme. These

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Abstract Watercolor Paintings

A few months ago, after receiving a nice watercolor landscape painting from family member, I was enthusiastic about attempting some watercolor paintings myself, but was quickly disappointed when this project became very challenging.  After a few failed attempts I decided to put landscape aside and focus on something I would find more fun.  Here are a

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