Plein air painting 2 - The Breakfast Cafe

Again, playing w/ the amount of water in my brush, and other things.. The reds of the building are inconsistent, and I didn't add any shadowing to the tree to the left of the building, on the left side of the painting. So this one is unfinished i think.. But I liked how parts of it came out.

Plein air painting 1 - The Park Bench Cafe

Plein air painting in the park. This is a small sketch and watercolor of the Park Bench Cafe on Goldenwest Street. I'm still really experimenting with the water on the paper.. some parts i like, and some areas of the painting i do not like as much. Luckily the two artist friends I went painting with want to go again soon, and are really enthusiastic about going often. We started at 9am, and finished around 3. We had lunch at the this place called Breakfast in the Park. (Subject of the 2nd painting)

Lora

Lora was really good tonight. I like how these two turned out.

--kiki

makin' progress.. very slowly...

I'm horrible when it comes to drawing faces and hands.. as you can see, i avoided both in this first drawing. In the 2nd drawing, the head is too small, or the neck is too wide. I don't know. I think the hand is too small too.. But they are both there. I tried. -kiki