Pumpkins, Paintings, and People

It's been a bit of a while since the last update, so here's what I've been working on lately: 

Finished the underpainting and begun "dead coloring" on my Venetian canal painting.  It's based on a photo that I took during a trip to Venice.  I'm taking my time with this one.

© Oscura Photography

It's pumpkin season!  You know what that means.  Baking pumpkins, eating pumpkins, taking pictures of pumpkins and photoshopping them onto my body for ha-has.... I mean... okay, maybe not that last one.

I made this little guy in pretty harvest colors, following a free crochet pattern from Little Muggles.  It was a fun break from drawing, painting, and job searching in my new locale.  

A little drawing of an eye, with an Alda Merini quote.  Mostly I wanted to play with my inks, and mixing colors.  An unlikely combination, mixing a true violet with Antelope Brown yields some very lovely warm tones.  I'm definitely going to use this color combination in some larger projects.  

And, lastly, sketching people at the beach.  They're little because I was spending maybe twenty seconds on each doodle, since the people who go to the beach in 60 degree weather move around a lot more than the typical sunbathers.  Fun stuff!  It's also the same violet ink I used in the eye.