Category: Nature
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Restless Rhino

The latest in my series of versions of ATCs/ACEOs featuring baby animals. Time is getting on now, and the night is most definitely drawing in. This baby rhino, however, doesn’t want to sleep. He needs sleep. He just doesn’t want it. Too much to learn. So he is lying low, watching as the day comes…
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The Green Man

After posting the Carved Man the other day, and then the Little Green Man, I thought I would have a go at painting my version of the actual Green Man. More of a caricature than the actual Green Man, as things turned out, but it still passed one and a half hours nicely. I did…
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Turbulence and Light

Today’s painting for #WorldWatercolorMonth is a colourful painting of water. And a lighthouse in a storm. I’ve also had a little fun with the lighthouse theme, as just before posting this I wrote the previous Wordle post, based again on a lighthouse. Well, why not? There were some challenges with this painting, which, I’ve decided,…
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Wordle: Lighthouse

Brutally painted cream and white Sure to be seen on any night Reflective walls and lamp so bright To face a storm, but a welcome sight. Waves crash with their attacks and flees Amid constant scorn and destructive needs Churning water flows and bleeds In poetic rhythm masked deadly deeds. Skin saved once more amid…
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Cheetah! Cheater!

OK. I’ve digitally enhanced the header image. There, I’ve said it. I had to. The eyes didn’t look right otherwise,and they just needed that little bit of an added zing. The images below are all untouched, as they are on the watercolour paper. This is my next version of an ATC/ACEA, presented for #WorldWatercolorMonth. A…