by Ona Christie | Nov 5, 2014 | Animal art, Animal spirits, Paintings
My dad seems to have bear energy. I’m staying at his house for a few days and keep wanting to paint bears. Here is the first one. Here is the second. (I like the first one better.) I used a very limited primary color palette for these, and did most of my color...
by Ona Christie | Sep 5, 2011 | Art studio, Drawings, Figure drawing, Illustration
More hand studies from the animation illustration project. The male hand is supposed to appear more forceful. I drew these pencil studies from reference photos I took of my son Isaac’s hand. However his hands are fairly small and delicate for a guy. I think a...
by Ona Christie | May 5, 2010 | Animal art, Art studio, Paintings, Watercolor
This one was done on impulse. I had pulled out a bunch of scraps of watercolor paper, many of which had been used to demonstrate washes, etc. This one was covered with a decidedly pink wash and adorned with a value scale along the right hand side. Probably I should...
by Ona Christie | May 3, 2010 | Animal art, Art studio, Paintings, Watercolor
A couple of weekends ago we had some business in Minneapolis and decided to stay an extra day and make it an outing. So we headed to one of my favorite places – the Minnesota Zoo! Of course I’ve always been a horse nut. Since I didn’t bring my...
