Featured Student for July

[Elena Marengoni]

I've been focusing on watercolor illustrations a lot lately

[Miriam]

@chrisaakins - I always love your cute little mice illustrations.

[Miriam]

@Coley - The polar bear is so sweet and adorable! The skies in both of these are beautiful!

[KajsaH]

Here I go!

[Rachel Horne]

@KajsaH These are really nice, I especially love the atmosphere and light in the top image!

[Rachel Horne]

Here are a couple of things I've been working on lately...

[KajsaH]

@Rachel-Horne thank you!

[AustinShurtliff]

@Dima-Eichhorn thanks for getting the posts started! I really like how you positioned the different characters in your second image to convey the narrative.

[AustinShurtliff]

@Coley I really love your use of texture in these images (especially on the house and moon).

[AustinShurtliff]

@Elena-Marengoni watercolor is such a beautiful medium, and I really like the style you use with it. Wonderful work!

[AustinShurtliff]

@Rachel-Horne your use of texture in your work looks great!

[Dima Eichhorn]

@AustinShurtliff Thank you a lot for this comment. It means a lot to me.

[Coley]

@AustinShurtliff thanks, btw I saw on another post you said you like finding fellow Canadians online, I’m in Newfoundland! We were in bc last summer for mountain biking with the kids, loved it!

[KathrynAdebayo]

@chrisaakins This is my new favorite piece of yours. I love the lighting and watercolor elements.

[Elena Marengoni]

@AustinShurtliff thank you!! You're right, watercolor is an interesting medium and is really fun to use!

[bofrese]

Most (all) of my art these days are inspired by random drawing prompts generated by my new app. You can see some of them here: https://www.instagram.com/ArtPromptsApp/

The first one was : “Draw a Turtle which is a Librarian with a pair of slippers in a Haunted House.”

Not sure what to call this piece. Either:
“Sorry it’s late. - I was at my funeral”
Which, according to my librarian wife, is the only valid excuse to return a book late.

Or maybe I should simply call it:
“The late King George returns...”
What do you think?

The next one was inspired by the prompt:
“Draw an ostrich that is taking a bath”

After some research for reference photos, I came across the iconic scene from Pretty Woman - and I just knew I had to paint this .....

You can see a bit of my process for this painting on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-5Vlu9F-QG/

If you want to help test the ArtPrompts iOS app you can get it here:
http://artprompts.bofrese.dk

[Rachel Horne]

@AustinShurtliff thank you

[AustinShurtliff]

@Coley thats so cool! I think the thing that I have missed the most since moving to the US is the lack of green and trees in the areas I have lived in. I've heard Newfoundland is a beautiful place too.

[Heather Boyd]

@KajsaH love the first submission reminds me of another work I have seen.

[Coley]

@AustinShurtliff soooo many trees here! I had a hard time when I lived in Halifax and that’s not a big city, I used to hug trees in the park lol. Now I live right on the edge of wilderness so I walk across my driveway and up into the wilderness every day . We’re pretty lucky pandemic wise here too, so far, just got to no cases in the province tho we’ll see what happens in the fall. Sure is nice for now. Have a good day, fellow Canadian