Scatty — Fun list! Thanks so much 😊 🎨 I was going to sit out May and recharge from a long winter, but I couldn’t resist dropping by to check your list. And saw that you have bumble bees!!! How cool is that 😍 I love bees. I don’t know if they’re around yet, and don’t know how to sketch one even if I find one, but I can always try and see what happens. But they’re pretty much always moving by definition, so wish me luck Thanks for a cool list!

item #1 – “beautiful”

tiny glass ladybug figurine[/color]

I thought I’d get the tiny-flying-creature vibe going as practice for sketchng a bee. So I painted this tiny figurine in memory of the days when ladybugs roamed free and made the world a better and more beautiful place!

I don’t think I’ve seen more than two living ladybugs in the last couple of decades, and they weren’t even where I lived, unfortunately. So a few years ago, missing them, I bought this little sweetie for a few cents. She fits on my fingernail.

Tools:

iPad Pro, Apple Pencil

Procreate (old version) app for the sketch.

Art Studio Pro app for the crop, borders, downsize and export.[/color]

Process:

Virtual acrylic on virtual hot press watercolor paper.

Freehand, no drafting tools or tracing, digital or otherwise.

No grid or smoothing or symmetry or cloning, digital or otherwise.

No filters or effects. No color intensification or exaggeration.

Reference located a few inches away (because she kept falling off my finger ).[/color]

Thanks, Scatty for the new list and happy birthday to your sister!

PC what a cute face on that figurine

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Jeroen — Welcome home! Long time no see. Good to see your most excellent precision back in the mix here.
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Jeroen: Yeah … I bought my girls an Ukulele … they never get around to learn to play it (I should have guess that)… but now I have another item on my bucket list of “Learning to play Ukulele”… I need to get back to some piano too. If I ever will be around your city, I will message you for both the music and sketching jam… hahaha

PC: Awesome cool start of our Hunt with your tiny lady bug sketch.

Kat, thanks for the new list.

Pine Cone, every summer there is a week where I find ladybugs flying around at the beach. They seem to be around for a short time only and then gone.

Jeroen, nice job on the guitar. What will you be playing for us?

Jo, I like your indoor plein air. Nice tree!!

Ai — Thanks so much 😊

Jo — Thanks and smiles back! I know what I want to say about your cool plein-window trees, about the gorgeous light on their trunks, the sea of beauty that grounds them… but I feel like I’m jinxing them, so I guess all I can do is be at peace and wave goodbye to this one with gratitude for the chance to spend a moment with it…

Joan — I didn’t know that beaches and ladybugs went together!!! Very cool And your paintings have been so missed. They’re like water in the desert for me. The depth and ethereal beauty of the 1st, the joyous freedom of the 2nd, the hope of the third… Thank you for coming home to us!