The pink trees

On my street, on the treelawn we have a stretch of these gorgeous trees that have pink flowers.
They aren't cherry blossoms, but the appearance is similiar and for a few days we have these incredible, gorgeous pink lined streets.

For about 5 minutes.
Then it rains, every year and the wind blows and they all fall off.
I was able to capture a quick picture of them this year when the sun was out and use it for a watercolor.

I thought I'd share some WIP pictures of that watercolor with you.

I first put down some washes of color.
This is the part I always hate... I never like how it turns out at this stage.
This is the "awkward teenage phase" of art.
LOL

 Then it's time to start defining the flowers a bit more.
A close up so you can see how they go from blob to impression of flower

And here is where I am now.
It's not quite done but the entire paper is soaking wet and I need to let things settle... including my vision of what it will be.

So I'll set it aside for a while and finish it in a day or so. Or sometime next week. 

Do you have any pretty trees or flowers that pop up in spring near your house?
I'd love to know!

A little bit of morning painting

Video today instead of words. :)

ISBN

In the last week I have been finalizing some really awesome stuff.
I created a coloring book that's going to be in hand by the end of the month and I can show you my sneak peek here! 

It's available for preorder on my website and I've been jumping for joy (and freaking out) for days.

Today, I got my ISBN for it.

I can't even tell you how excited I was by that, I can only imagine this must be what it feels like to be Stephen King... LOL

I promise I'll have lots more to show you in the upcoming days and weeks now that I have that project settled. 

I hope you've been making awesome things, I'd love to see what you are working on!