Not sure if I'd posted my Chickadee before. It's been a while, I've had a lot of stuff going on in my personal life that has kept me from making art and posting, but I'm working on getting back at it.

INPRNT is having a sale again, and I've got some of my Floral and Mushroom dragons available. If you like my artwork, please consider taking a look, it means a lot.
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I'm also available for commissions. Feel free to contact me if interested.

Watercolor and prismacolor pencils on cold press paper, around 5x7. Finally added color to a sketch I did awhile ago.

An aquatic dragon sketch from sometime around last year.

Here's a throwback to a painting I did in watercolors of a fox back in 2020. I've been meaning to paint more animals and birds in general as I find them to be fun to paint, same with more scenes and plants. Characters too. All the things.

Day 3 was Storm, so I went with a swirling, purplish white scaled dragon with spines along its sides and back. My idea for the spines was that they help it to maneuver in storms and collect the lightning for it to use as a breath weapon.

Watercolor / Colored pencils on Cold Press Watercolor Paper, 4x7

A piece of fanart for Okami of Amaterasu. Done in watercolor and colored pencils on cold press watercolor paper.

The next in my Dragonflies / Dragons and Blooms series is a geranium dragon.
For the red hues, I chose tuscan red, crimson red and poppy red. The greens are close to grass and apple green I think. I just went with what I thought might contrast well as I worked, I didn't go into it with color in mind, barring the red of the flowers.
For some of these, since there are so many colors and variations, I will probably do more than one in the future.

These dragons like to weave themselves into the flower clusters they are named for, being that their red scales look similar. During the day they will occasionally stretch out their wings to help with absorbing heat from the sun. Since they spend most of their lives in these clusters of flowers, they take on the flower's scent as well.

Canson Watercolor Paper approx. 5x7
Mijello Mission Gold / Daniel Smith Watercolors
Prismacolor pencils

A watercolor painting from sometime last year of a Spinosaurus skull with some flowers around it.

A little watercolor painting from last year of a dragon resting on some leaves.

Trying to practice with digital art again. This was a digital painting study of a bumblebee.

A watercolor painting of a blue scaled dragon visiting a small cabin. Watercolor and pencils with touches of gouache here and there.

Happy New Year everyone, and I hope you all had a happy holiday season as well, whichever you celebrate. 2023 has been a tough year for me, but I'm extremely thankful for all the lessons learned, and all the growth I've had as a person. I don't remember if I shared this painting or not last year, but I felt pretty happy with it so I thought it might be worth sharing now, despite being a new year and all.
I hope to make more art this year, as well as healing my connection with others and becoming more in touch with myself and my creative process. Thank you to everyone who's been a part of it so far.

Canson watercolor paper
Daniel Smith Watercolors
Prismacolor pencils