This was my first attempt at watercolor since high school, that’s a very long time ago. I was never really good at watercolor; I’m much more of an oil painter. I had a 16 x 20 clay board, craft quality cake watercolors and a ‘lets play’ attitude. This was the result. I did add acrylic highlights in the branches as well as the grass in the foreground. This was not the result I was hoping for, I wanted a more “watercolory” look, this looks closer to an oil or acrylic painting.

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Here are some photos of creatures I recently found in my backyard. I really like the bee photos, I’m not sure what kind of  bee this is but I think it’s a Carpenter Bee.  I love the bokeh in the background and the colors as well.

The spider was kind of cool. His was a huge web! Plus he hung around for about a week, this was the best shot of him. 

Cute little chipmunk. Not to bright though. He tried to hide from me, I guess he’s camera shy, he trapped himself in this tight little space. Which was fine by me because I really liked how the shot is framed. But it was hard to get a good shot, he was trembling so bad, I thought  if I don’t hurry up he might have a tiny, yet deadly little heart attack.

From my Nature gallery on my Nature page.