Baby shower invitations

Pencil drawing printed on vellum and made into cards.

My sister's baby shower invitations :) The due date is September 21st :D

Newborn niece

11x14 pencil on paper

This isn't my niece, but I do have a niece on the way! A lady ordered this portrait for her niece, and it made me even more excited about mine :)

another retirement

Not much to say about this one, but thanks again to all our troops and military people out there!

Surviving.

Watercolor on watercolor paper. 9x12.

This is one of the only, maybe the only expressive pieces I have ever done. I was a missionary in mongolia 6 months ago and was loving the work I was doing when I suddenly got sick, came home, and had to make a lot of changes due to illness. I remember sitting in our backyard and staring at a big dead tree behind our house. I thought it looked how I felt. But this tree won't stay barren, it just needs to survive the winter. Life has seasons too and we can't always thrive, sometimes we just need to survive. Summer comes, and this tree is covered with green now and is full of life.

Panda.

Watercolor on Paper, 8x10.

Watercolors have this beautiful messy quality. The colors are supposed to blend and blur, and less is more. I usually end up with muddy watercolors because I mess with the paints too much. My goal is still to figure this awesome medium out! ( I still have about 3 bad watercolors for every okay one.)