Drawings to go with YouTube Videos

Here are the drawing that you can use to follow along with my YouTube videos.
Download (Right click and choose "Save Image As")and trace them or just do your own drawing.
For Paint Your Own Christmas Card Evening Snow

Here's a copy of the finished painting

Happy Painting!

Introduction to Pen and Ink Drawing

I have just created a new Video, Introduction to "Pen and Ink Drawing".
Here is the template that goes with the video, use it to practice the techniques with me.

 Here is a photo of my completed chart of Pen & Ink Techniques

Here is also a link to the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTHKS5p-AVY&feature=youtu.be

Hope you enjoy it. The next video will be a step by step pen & ink drawing.

Travels with Lucky Fernie, BC

We stopped in Fernie for a few days. I realized I was really tired of travelling and Lucky stopped eating and began to chew on his feet. Its kind of a nervous thing he does when he's not happy   We are on our third day here and he is eating again and sitting happily under a tree. I am a little discouraged, my paintings are not up to par. That's why I haven't posted any. I don't like any of them, I just have to keep painting until I get over this. I am having trouble with values, they are so important to show distances especially between all these mountain ranges!
Here is a photo of me painting

Painting Outside of Hope

outside of Hope.
 I believe these are the Selkirk Mountains. I am now back in the Rockies. Fernie is the nicest town! It reminds me of Banff when I was growing up, before it got so commercialized.

Fernie, BC

I am still working on a watercolor of the rain forest. I have to add a photo or two here to show you what it looks like. It is quite spectacular in a kind of creepy way.

Coastal Rain forest

Sunlight in the forest

It is so hard to get good photos I need my friend Mario to come and take some photos here, or Sarah!

Travels with Lucky - Vancouver

June 15th
 I just had the most wonderful day painting! I was a Stanley Park in Vancouver. I could paint the sea and mountains as well as the coastal rain forest. Lucky and I are staying with good friends in Vancouver. They are spoiling us both! It was wonderful to go out and paint all day and come back to a lovely dinner. Great hospitality!  Here are some photos,

Travels with Lucky - British Columbia

June 11 - 15th
 Lucky and I joined my sister Sandi in Kelowna and we drove over to Hope, I was glad I wasn't driving a motor home it was so windy going over those passes. I discovered I can't paint if I don't know where I am staying that night. I just can't relax, constantly watching the time. It was great to stay with Sandy in the motor home. Lucky didn't really like it in there, no room to turn around. He ended up sleeping outside. He was tied up and didn't make a sound,

Travels with Lucky - Banff National Park

June 10th, 2015

       Lucky and I spent a great night in the Red Carpet Inn then went on to join my sister Sandy in her motor home in Kelowna. We spent half a day in Banff before leaving, Lucky went for an accidental swim in the Bow River; he was used to our shallow beach at Constance Bay and waded in for a drink and was over his head.  We went to Lake Louise and Moraine Lake before heading up the highway to the Roger's Pass. Here's a few photos of that day;

Moraine Lake

Lake Louise

Banff from Mt. Norquay