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Fantasy Skellies {Watercolor Timelapse}

If you've been following my work you know the Skellies are a common occurrence. I love drawing in scenarios that look like they came out of a storybook. I just having fantasy images that feel as if you walked into the room and see all the characters going about their own business. For this image I wanted to challenge myself with a complex watercolor painting that has foreground, mid-ground, and background. I wanted the stain glass, which is the background, to be a bit out of focus. And as the characters and items in the scene get closer to the foreground there are different levels of details. I keep the color palette a bit subdue, mostly oranges and blues. You can see in the video that I start with the background. This is not a necessary step for watercolor, but it's a habit I tend to have from doing acrylic and oil painting for years. (I start with the background so that way I can layer stuff on top of it and it stays as the background.)

Drawing and Painting from June 2015

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Watercolor Painting that I've been working on from June 2015 to present. After I catch up with all the works from last year I will post a more resent image of this watercolor painting. Colored pencil drawing of a flayed horse with Chihuly inspired colors!

Ink Drawings

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Unfinished, ink drawing with colored inks, might make this into a painting one day Ink, colored pencil, ink wash drawing of flowering cat A few older drawings from May and June 2015

Honey Bear, finished in March 2015

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Honey Bear, FINISHED! colored pencil, pastels, acrylic, metallic silver paint (wings) on tinted paper 17.5”x24” 180 bees in total!

Rod of Asclepius

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done back in Nov 2014 with pencil and digital color http://society6.com/katpowell/rod-of-asclepius-8d2#1=45 http://www.redbubble.com/people/katpowell/works/13081852-rod-of-asclepius

Secret of Nimh

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I love this movie so much. It was a wonderful story when I was a kid and it became a treasure to me when I became an adult. The entire image was unpremeditated, which is rather rare for me. I am more comfortable with a preliminary sketch before I start any work.