it is finally over

watercolours  on arches 300 rough 11" by 8"

old man sitting

11" by 8" watercolours on arches 300gm rough

just another portrait

watercolours on arches 400gm rough

ballerina tying her shoes

watercolours on saunders waterford 200lb - 15" by 11"

still life

11½" by 8" watercolours on saunders waterford 200lb

by the window #2

11½" by 8" watercolours on daler rowney

interesting face revisited

11" y 8" watercolours on daler rowney paper

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY DEAR FRIENDS

THE DANCERS

11" by 8" watercolours on dayler rowney watercolour paper 140lb

Thank you for all the lovely friends that thought my blog suits there style and are following it, you are all fantastic and very creative artist, anf I am proud to have you as my friends...
I am passing through aa new phase in my life journey... very hard time... yet I am trying to put all my feelings into my paintings...
I love tango dancing among all other types of dance, but I feel there is a lot of dramatic action in this one... I hope you like it, and thank you for looking...

old man in downtown Amman

11 1/2" by 8" watercolours on arches 300 paper

ballet dancer sketch #9

his is the last one in this series, next I will paint a series of dancers behind the scenes with strong lighting accenting shadows

11 1/2" by 8" watercolours on arches 300 paper

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ballet dancer sketch #8

I am so excited for this post, it is post #100 on my blog... feels kind of special...
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO IS SO KIND AS TO FOLLOW MY BLOG... or leave a comment, your input really makes me very happy

I discovered Posemaniacs a few months ago, it is a great reference for any position you wish to draw... they have thousands of figures posing in different poses and you can turn them around and sketch away...
I find it particularly useful when I want to draw costume illustrations that look as close to real life as possible...especially that you don´t have a model near by to sketch... http://www.posemaniacs.com/
try it and see how much fun it is
 these ballerina sketches  were not done using this link, it was copied from some photos I took some time ago

11 1/2" by 8" watercolours on arches 300 paper

CONNECTING

Hello everyone ... I just like to thank everyone for believing in my blog and commenting ... I appreciate your comments so much...
I have always wanted to paint this one but the time wasn´t  right until now ... I think the loose style lends iself to this, and of course without sketching

                                              8 by 11 arches 140lb rough w&n watercolours

portraits

Hi everybody...

Thank you so much to everyone who is kind enough to follow my blog...



I am sorry if I don´t post any new work , all the paintings I am posting were done a few months ago, since I am currently working on storybook illustrations and they take a lot of thought and time , and are full of details, it wasn´t easy to find too much time to paint for fun and passion. I will be finished with these soon and I will be able to share more with you...



These were done for a weekend painting event for wetcanvas each one took about an hour and they were all done without preliminary sketch

this is done in sepia watercolours on paper

A pencil study of the same figure as the previous painting

watercolours on paper also without a preliminary sketch

edible twenty minutes warm ups