Pippi - day 18

"Pippi"  (pastel, 9x7 inches)

Day 18 of my 30 paintings in 30 days of November!

This pretty pig was by request of the Ming Gallery, and will be submitted to their "Spring Greetings" Exhibition in Suzhou, China. (More info on this post.) To be submitted Dec 2.

"Koi #11" - First Painting in new Studio!

"Koi #11" (pastel, 5x5 inches)  is my first official painting of 2012 and the first one in my new studio! The studio is not completely finished, and is actually quite a mess right now, so no studio photos will be posted until I say so!
This new koi painting will be a new work for 2012 at Cactus Jack's in Gruene, TX, along with a few of my 'dailies' from last year that nobody was lucky enough to bid on.

To give you a peek into my creative process, I've posted below, today's original finished painting "Water Lilly #3" which I painted from a lovely photograph of the flower. It was only after scanning it and seeing it on screen that I realized it desperately needed some koi. And so a few strokes later it became "Koi #11". (above) NOW it's finished!