Oh look at you!
You’re such a pretty bird!
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Ahh… Spring
Smells delicious.
In the plum tree..
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and among the tulips.
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©Virginia Spencer, thepurpledogpaintingblog.com, 2017
April Showers Bring..
Much smorgasborgery.
Starting with some watercolor cherries from a Challenge on WetCanvas (in the miniature forum, thanks Lil, for the photo).
On this, I used only Alizarin crimson, ultramarine and yellow cadmium light.
Keeping it simple.
This dragon was also for a WetCanvas Challenge (in the Sci-fi/fantasy forum, the theme was wings). It doesn’t have any limbs as I am a bit of a defeetist.
Hahahahahahahahahaa..haha..ha..
*cough cough*
Ahem, pardon me.
This was done from a scanned sketch I did then I added the colors with a photo program. That’s about all digitally, that I know how to do.
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My original sketch of the defeeted dragon.
Next up was this oddity. She’s a masthead that has escaped from her ship.
Metallic watercolors.
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I’m still working on the linocutting. Having a great time of it.
I decided to make rampants for us. I was going to go traditional but then I thought why use a lion rampant or a unicorn rampant when you can use a Westie Rampant and a Labrador Retriever Rampant.
I intentionally left the rough bits in on this. I liked the look of them.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, everything is growing.
I love Spring!
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©Virginia Spencer, thepurpledogpaintingblog.com, 2017
International Women’s Day
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©Virginia Spencer, thepurpledogpaintingblog.com, 2017
Happy Birthday, Dog!
Sampson is ten years old today!
Here are some of my favorite photos of him.
Just woken up Sammy
Sassy Sammy.
Suspicious Sammy
You hurt my feelings Sammy.
Look at my paw Sammy.
Defiantly muddy Sammy
Leaping Sammy
Groucho Marx Sammy
Aw Shucks Sammy
In the wind Sammy
And of course…
Purple Sammy!
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©Virginia Spencer, thepurpledogpaintingblog.com, 2017
A Perambulating Possum
A pretty possum
Perambulating past.
Leaving radishes
On my window sash!
.Perhaps she lives
in a purple house
With other possums
and a little mouse.
They could drink tea
and dance in delight
And when they are tired
They’ll say goodnight!
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©Virginia Spencer, thepurpledogpaintingblog.com, 2017
Fancy Flamingos
A flamingo in watercolor, 4×6.
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And the same flamingo in pastels, 4×6
I haven’t used pastels in years, made a thorough mess of myself!
Thanks to the person who added the photo to the WetCanvas Reference Image Library. This was part of the miniature forum’s monthly challenge.
©Virginia Spencer, thepurpledogpaintingblog.com, 2017
Weather Vane Plane
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©Virginia Spencer, thepurpledogpaintingblog.com, 2016
The Mantis
The zinnias are still lovely at this time of year.
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The praying mantis, she finds them quite dear
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Such big yellow eyes!
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So many butterflies..
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They’d better scurry.
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For the frost is near.
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©Virginia Spencer, thepurpledogpaintingblog.com, 2016
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The Cage, the Clown and the Curse
Hanging in an iron cage
Above the weathered path
Was a smirking scowling
Absurdly demented
Grinning psychopath
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Come here he said
With a sharp toothed smile
And let me tell you a tale
Of horror and gore
And murder and more
And such that will make you pale
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Oh you macabre mime
With your twisted old rhyme
You do not scare me at all
Stuck there in your cage
With your lonely dark rage
You’ll be dead by the end of the fall
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But he mocked me with glee
For on All Hallows Eve
When the shadows rode low on the ground
That evil old clown
One magic trick he had found
To free him precipitously
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He cast on me
A vermilion curse
As he cackled over the boos of the hoard
To my utter dismay
I was now in his cage
And I had transformed into a gourd!
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The last that I saw him
That gruesome old fool
He was dancing in the dying leaves
Cackling, spiteful
Insanely delightful
Wailing
Happy Halloween!
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Boo!
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