These peppers are another project from The Colored Pencil Solution Book. They're about 8 x 10. Overall I was pretty pleased with these.

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This was from a reference photo I found at morguefile.com. Sometimes you have to hunt a little but there are some really great photos there. I loved the colors in the waterlily. This piece is on a watercolor postcard, so it's not very big.

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Then I got really crazy and did this as a Christmas gift for friends. Another dragon pattern, but the colors are mine. This one is on 9 x 12 Canson Cream Drawing paper, with Prismacolor pencils.

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After the pointsettia, I wanted to try a project where I had to (gasp) choose and work out the color palette and layers myself. The line drawing for this one is from The Great Book of Dragon Patterns by Lora S. Irish. He's small, only about 3 x 5.

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I took a break over the summer, then started thinking I'd like to make my own Christmas cards. After a few false starts I finished this pointsettia, which came partially from another project in Lee Hammond's book, but I altered it somewhat to fit the format I wanted. I was really pleased with this one.

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And another art card, again from Lee Hammond's book.

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This is another project from Lee Hammond's book. Just art card size, 2.5 x 3.5 inches.

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This project is from Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing. Another book that I can't imagine doing without now. Still having trouble getting colors to blend, but I keep working at it.

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Another project from The Colored Pencil Solution Book. I really enjoyed doing this one. Can't seem to get a good scan of this one...

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By this point I was buying books about colored pencil! This is a project from The Colored Pencil Solution Book by Janie Gildow and Barbara Benedetti Newton. The line drawing to start was provided, but the coloring is mine. This is a book I highly recommend!

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This is Uranus, which spins on its side. The reference was a drawing from an astronomy book. By now I had some Prismacolors and was starting to think about layering color.

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A spacescape of Neptune as seen from one of its moons. I based this on another drawing.

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This was my first colored pencil picture, just done with school pencils and a photo from the cover of a Vesey's seed catalog. I had no idea what I was doing, just that it was fun...

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