A Series of Small Things

gouache on card stock

gouache on canvas board   This was an experiment with the paint and the canvas board.  I've used gouache before on a smooth surface (like wood) and enjoyed it, but this was the pits.  Couldn't fill in the canvas ridges.  This was also an experiment in painting living things and using perspective.  I know practiced, trained artists can do this a lot better (there are kids that can do it a lot better) but I was just happy to get the angle of the barn and the shape of the horse for now.

Watercolor on canvas

Watercolor pencil on paper

Can you even tell the differences between the second and third version? This is WAY worse than editing.

I couldn't help it.  The thing needed more texture.  I like lumps.

Trying to merge what I learned in the landscape class with my own style.  Acrylic on canvas board. Looks good as a postcard .

Strange vase and an augmented, stencil dragonfly.  Watercolor pencil on paper.

I learned how to use a fan brush and a sea sponge during a 90 minute class where we created a spring painting in ac ryli c on canvas board. Might make a nice postcard.

Watercolor on paper.  I think I will re-scan this later.  The bottom doesn't look blurry like that in real life.

watercolor on watercolor paper

Acrylic on canvas--will look better on a postcard, just like "Lollipop Trees."

Acrylic on canvas board

Tempera on cardboard--all others acr y lic

Watercolor Pencil on Watercolor Paper

Watercolor pencil on paper -- first try with stencils and paper this size (post card) , so the spacing at the top is not right . 

Acrylic on Canvas Board by Katherine Gotthardt

I doubt there's any such species, but who cares?  It's my bird!  Would make a good tile, I think. acrylic on canvas