Willie Mays memorial painting

 I've never done a memorial painting, but since I'm taking a painting class right now and we lost the greatest baseball player ever this week, it seemed right to give it a go. I tried to be more expressive than realistic. Didn't turn out like I had it in my head, but I still like the result.

Pencil sketch

First washes

More washes

Finished!

Painting Pokemon

 I'm currently taking a Watercolor Painting class. It is a class for my teaching as an Art Educator, but it also is an exploration of my own artistry. For my first painting I took some suggestions of Pokemon characters. I was only going to paint one, but then I had the idea to do three in format I've been drawing characters lately (see other pages on this blog). From the suggestions, I picked the three characters I thought were most interesting visually. I also decided to paint Kirlia instead of the suggested Ralts for this reason. Here's the process and the result.