Sweet Potato

This is what happens to a sweet potato that you leave in a basket in your kitchen, for about a month. It sprouted about six stems. I cut the sweet potato into two pieces and planted them. Look below for a macro shot of a leaf. If you look closely you can see purple in the stem.

Sweet Potato Leaf

Another ArtRage painting, this one of a gondola in Venice. Not horrible, but still.

Paris 2004

I was reminiscing a little this morning about my trip to Paris last year. I went with some friends, and we went to the top of the Eiffel Tower on the first day. It's really cold up there at dusk. I wished I'd brought a parka. The line was long, the elevator crowded, and some teenage smart ass in the elevator tried to out-word me. Acrophobia and agoraphobia both came up, and then it was a phobia naming contest. Anyway, at the top I took a panorama of digital shots of Paris. I had no idea how white the city looks from up high, nor how interesting it can be to view a city from this vantage.
Painter and digital tablet, Gouache brush size five, from a photo. This wasted a good two, two-and-a-half hours of my day today. And it turned out okay too.

Fruit #2

Fruit using ArtRage. About 90 minutes, tinkering and messing around.

Metropolitan

Last week's Illustration Friday topic, Metropolitan. I traced this from a photo that I took in London last year. It feels like cheating, but I'm still undecided about that.
Painter, with the Gouache Brush, size 5, in about an hour. I'm working on a color version, but I like it without.

Fruit - Strawberries

EDM Challenge #24, Fruit. I did this one in Painter too, in about an hour. I used a photo underneath to get the lines and colors, and it looks weird, I think because of the low res image that I used. Anyway, Gouache Brush size 5 for the lines, and then varying Gouache brushes for the colors. I used Eraser Bleach for some of the highlights, but also painted some of the hightlights.

I'm trying another in ArtRage, but that's not going as well. I'll post it tomorrow, probably.

My Feet

This week's EDM challenge. Painter, two layers, black lines with Gouache Brush 5 on upper layer, then colored with Gouache Brush 30 on the canvas layer. I did two other reallllly bad versions, so this took about an hour. Then I didn't like the color that I painted with, so I adjusted it to be slightly more pink than tan.