A Collage Tribute to My Muse - the Adventure in Painting 30 in 30

I love looking at these collectively.  

They are every ONE a work of 'the heart'.
 

I love animals.  

I have a 'renewed friend' ~ 'watercolor'. 

They shakeout number wise like this:

18 ~ dog paintings

7 ~ cat paintings

3 ~ bird paintings

1 ~ horse painting

1 ~ piglet painting

(oh and 1 person in a painting)

That's probably something I will work on next -

and I always work on it, 

'people in watercolor'.
MY focus for this challenge was ANIMALS - and then I left it open on the medium.
Oil is very comfortable to me, so I took it out of that mode a little over halfway
to something NOT so comfortable, watercolor.

AND 'MEDIUM' WISE they are:

17 ~ oil paintings

12 ~ watercolors 

(thanks to the 'Trumpeter Swan' for speaking to me so loudly)

1 ~ pastel 

(how can I let the time go by without doing my first love - pastel?)
I learned - watercolor CAN BE forgiving. My experience with it is just
a little and what has always had me at arms length with it, IS that uncertainty.
But having the OK to really experiment has taught me much.
I find my favorite surface is plain old 140 semi-rough Arches WC paper.
I have tons of watercolor paints, but found using those top brands out of tubes
is the best for vivid color and pigment flow.
Those little trays of color that you pick up, with strange unknown names
will not last for very long UV wise.

If you purchased one of these, I thank you again 

and again, it helps with the cost of materials 

for the future - art stuff isn't cheap.

I have met some new friends in the blogosphere.

Thanks to Leslie Saeta for hosting this

January 30 in 30 - 

if you don't know about

her and all she does for art, you really should

visit her blog and

sift through a myriad of 'good things'.

I hope to take more time

to listen to more of her BlogTalk Radio,

"Artists Helping Artists".

I will leave her link on the sidebar.

You might want to go there today

to see the many collages

that have been posted.