Copetona

Just a little more and she will be ready

still have details to finish, but she is getting very close to finished.

If you are interested in pre-purchasing this original watercolour of this female Cardinal in Winter Snow, before I list it on Etsy.  Only $200. and I will pay shipping and insurance in the 48 states.  E.mail me and I will send you an invoice.

With so many thanks to Kate Young of Chronicles of a CountyGirl

Related articles

• Winter Cardinal Love WaterColour (newmexicomtngirl.com)
• Attracting Cardinals In Winter (thewiseacres.wordpress.com)

It all started years ago, not so sure how many now.  I started following “Chronicles of a Country Girl”   blog.  I’m pretty sure I was drawn by this very photograph she took of a female cardinal….

I have loved this image for as long as I can remember.  I grew up in Missouri and AdORe Cardinals, especially females.

So we traded…..lOVE, Love  &   v e r y    happy for this, so I asked???? May I pretty please and she said

“YES!!!”

winter cardinal watercolour start

all the wondeful misket painted on the sketch to keep the whites pure…

winter female cardinal

nother view.

And then I took the magical mistik off and did this:

Female Cardinal Snow Around

Just the start of A Beautiful Winter Female Cardinal in the Snow

soon to be for sale on my etsy shop.  If you would like to pre-purchase @ $200. please contact me and I can invoice  you. I will pay shipping and insurance here in the 48 states. It isn’t finished yet, but just a few more details and this original CheyAnneSexton WaterColour can be yours.

Plus I’ve been working on another ‘Old Blue Chevy in the Field’ watercolor.

Old Blue Chevy in the field 2 watercolor

Very fun and it’s based on another old blue chevy.  there seems to be a run on Old Blue Chevrolet Pick-up Trucks

Wait till you see the misket off the paper.  So sweet

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• Attracting Cardinals In Winter (thewiseacres.wordpress.com)
• Waiting Cardinal (exartizoimages.wordpress.com)

CandyCorn Pueblo Ponies

Ponies that stand out like a beacon to us that love horses…

pony moving thru cottonwoods

if you look closer you will see him looking back too…..

First Snow and October Autumn Leaves of Gold

Autumn Gold and Turquoise Blue Windows of Old

Please Don't Throw Rocks in the Pond

thru the aspens there sits a house

that use to house of master of crafts

and this is only half of what I saw on my way to work….. on this fine October Morning outside of Taos, New Mexico in El Prado.

SnowFlake on it's Beak

The junco‘s are back and I’ve seen them hopping and a bopping on the ground all over our yard.  This year we can see this part of the yard because last spring we put in “THE” best buy and install so far.  Our new (to us) $115. double pane lowe high altitude Pella full size, opens both ways Window.  Full length floor to ceiling

We LOVE our new window.

junco fluffing bath feathers

we’ve been looking out this window all Spring of 2011 and Summer of 2011, Fall of 2011 and now finally Winter of 2011.  We are loving our Sugar Shack

And now we have our very own, paid for window, to enjoy the forest around us through out the seasons.

Wintertime Junco

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• Remembering the Dark-eyed Juncos (bobzeller.wordpress.com)

I sketched this little chica back when my daughter was a little one and I’ve always loved it.

Orange Red Fairy Girl

Teal Purple Fairy Girl

For Sale on my Esty Shop

I’ve learned how to actually add layers and do different things with them Like:

California Poppy swirled in Purple

and even tho this isn’t Kim’s texture, she has taught me how to do this and I’ve always loved my purple california poppy

which you can buy as a print in my etsy store

so come on over an lets learn something new

Hope to see you there

cream over red

Iris’ are just incredible, aren’t they?    What color would you call this red?

omni light over butter yellow and grape purple iris

Iris’ are just incredible………

crop, omni light,
Bokeh 4, soft light @ 100%
Jerry Jones  Bokeh 4 ShadowHouse Creations (texture)

prints and giclees  available on my Etsy Shop

rooster

I added Kim Klassen’s paper stained texture to my original watercolor ‘rooster’ .

used vivid light at 58%

reduced the image size so I could add text and there you have it.

Shared on KimKlassen’s Texture Tuesday

my original painting of this rooster sold on my etsy store sometime last year (but I can still make prints, if you are interested)

watercolor rooster original

rooster in Mexico

and it all started with this photo I took on our trip down the coast of Mexico 2 years ago.

Horse-Glow

I used multiply at 100% w
Texture – 165
Lenabem-Anna
http://flic.kr/p/9CTPW7