Tag Archives: Negative Painting

Tea Tree in the Rain


#Doodlewash prompt: Rain. It isn’t really a tea tree – just a tree I drew on a Butterfly Peaflower tea background. Another of the drawings done while waiting at the airport. Done with Zebra Zensations Technical Pen and Butterfly Peaflower tea on Hahnemühle Agave Cold-Press watercolor paper with ZenArt Black Tulip brushes.

African Paradise Flycatcher


#Doodlewash prompt: bluebird. I know. My bird is more orange than blue, but it’s a bird and there is lots of blue, so I’m going with it! Did you know that the tail of the African Paradise Flycatcher can double in length during breeding season, reaching lengths up 12 inches (30 cm). That’s just theContinue reading “African Paradise Flycatcher”

Children of the Bird


#Doodlewash prompt: Children. Did you know that bird parents sometimes make over a thousand trips to and from the nest each day, in order to keep their children fed properly? Poor things! I started a painting and soon realized that I hated it. Not one to let that stop me, I turned on the kitchenContinue reading “Children of the Bird”