I've moved!

I'm now going to be operating, as far as my art goes, from a new site: kidfoarts.blogspot.com

Another Class

A few days ago, I took another painting class at a local Michaels. It was very fun, and I learned a little. so, overall, it was a win!

It was a landscaping class, and I chose to do the meadow with flowers and a road, instead of a beach scene with a lighthouse, since I was the only student. Below is the result...

That's all, thank you!

Watercolor...

I recently bought some watercolor paints, nothing fancy, just some cheap, but not kids', pan/cake watercolor paints. They're alright, but seeing as I haven't tried somewhat seriously painting with watercolor before, I figured that they would serve their purpose. And they do.

I started out with some not so serious paintings, mostly My Little Pony original characters based off people I know and myself, and a mermaid I had drawn. But then, by following a video on Youtube by 'Art ala Carte' I decided to try painting seriously-ish. I add the -ish because I wasn't horribly serious since I was mostly playing around with my new paints, but I digress. I followed her video for painting a forest with watercolors, having to make a few adjustments since my watercolor paper didn't seem to be very good quality and it couldn't handle as much water as she would use.

Anyways, below is the results of all my watercolor dabbling. 

3rd one I did, the only serious-ish one.

This was the first one I did, thus it's not good.

2nd

4th

I Love Dolls - part 1

I do love dolls, mostly Barbie and BJDs, but they're dolls. I haven't painted a Barbie yet, nor do I really want to, but I felt the need to share how much BJDs have been inspiring me lately. So here I am, after a month of a creative slump, with a new painting!

As any major BJD lover probably knows, this is based off of/inspired by Doll Chateau's Stacy 1/3 doll... No? Only I am obsessive enough to memorize what Stacy's eyes and factory faceup look like?

Yeah, basically, I only took inspiration from those two things (her eyes and makeup), and went a little crazy on everything else. (Not really, but...)

ALSO! This is the first painting that I signed the front of! Simply because I felt such pride in my work, that I wanted to brag!

And, to add most life to this post, here's every other BJD portrait that I did, even the bad ones!

Mothers Provide Miracles

This is a Mother's Day post... a late one. I would like to take this day to thank all the mothers out there that have provided this world with miracles of life. My own mother included. As well as my best friend, who had her second child about a week before Mother's Day. :)

This is a painting I did of my friend and her daughter

This is another painting of my friend's daughter

This is a painting I did of myself, my older sister, and my dead sister (the baby) for my mom on Mother's Day.

Two More Random Pet Portraits Practice Paintings!

As the title says, I have continued practicing in preparation for opening commissions. Here are the most recent results!

Juvenile Leopard Gecko

Puppy that was supposed to be a Saint Bernard

Am I improving?

Random Pet Portrait Practice #1

Since I had such success at painting my pet bunny, I decided to continue on that path and to consider doing commissions for pet portraits. Of course, before I could even truly consider doing commissions, I needed more practice. Plus, I needed a bit of a portfolio for the commission listing on etsy. So...

My lop-eared bunny, J.J.

Random cockatiel

Random Siamese kitten

Random blue parakeet

Random Persian

So, thoughts? Am I improving? Is there a certain animal that I should paint more of? Are there any animals you want to see me try to paint?