Showing posts with label Watercolor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watercolor. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

An Announcement



Greetings!
I have news!
My short story, The Strange Case of Willoughby Spalding, has been made into an ebook, and it is now available for pre-order on Amazon!
The release date is February 14th. (I chose Valentine's Day, since it is a bit of a romance.)
And here....








is....













the...














....















...cover!
Hand-painted by me

What do you think?
I decided to post this today, and save my planned "recommendation" post for next week.
So that's all for now.
Have a lovely week!

God bless!

Megan

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Of Dragons and Plot Bunnies



Hi ya'll!
It's been a while.
Can you believe it's already November 8th? I sure can't. It seems like it was just August 1st...

Anyhow...
I have been reading, writing, and painting in my free time lately.

Reading:
I must recommend this new Trilogy I have recently come across, and devoured.
It took me only ten days to read the entire trilogy. It was fantastic.

The Remnant Trilogy
Fantastic books about what Noah's life could have been like before the Global Flood. Written by Tim Chaffey and K. Marie Adams.
I highly recommend them; they're funny, heartbreaking, entertaining, intense, amazing, and fantastic!
Seriously, go check them out!

Writing:
Been working on reaching my 100,000 word count goal on a story I've been writing for about two years now. Perhaps one day it'll be finished, and I'll self-publish it.
It's a story about a young Irish man, and his struggle with many things in his life including a vengeful co-worker, a friend struggling with his Faith, long-lost family secrets, surprising new family members, and learning to put his trust fully and wholly in God.
It's...a work in process. ;-)
(this is my plot bunny. It started out as a NANOWRIMO project two years ago, and I've been slowly working on it since then.)

Painting:
All watercolor paintings below...
So I painted the dinosaur painting I used for the picture for this post.

Behemoth! One of my favorite dinosaurs. 
Fun fact: The word dinosaur wasn't invented until 1841, by a guy named Sir Richard Owen.

Next, my first attempt at a bird of prey:

The American Kestrel
A commission-of-sorts from a friend who is a falconer. The Kestrel is such a pretty little bird! Barely the size of a pigeon. I never realized how small they were until I looked up pictures!

And lastly, my favorite, a baby red kangaroo:

Ruby the Red Kangaroo
This is a darling little Joey that I have had the privilage of meeting. She's the cutest little "roo" I've ever met.


Well that's about it for this post.
Here's a writing prompt, before I go, since I've not been posting those lately...



~ How is your Autumn coming along? ~
~ Has it snowed yet where you live? ~
~ Did you remember to set your clocks back? ~

That's all for now, hope you enjoyed this post!

God bless!

Megan

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Watercolors & Summertime




And here we are, on the final Tuesday of June. My my, how time flies!
I hope you have had a lovely summer thus far!

Maybe it's just me, but watercolor and summertime seem to go hand-in-hand.
Growing up, I always liked to watch the 90's British animated cartoons based on Beatrix Potter's stories, and the idea of sitting atop a green hill and painting the landscape surrunding, like Beatrix is doing at the beginning of each episode, (before retreating indoors to escape the unexpected rain storm, of course...) is something that has always seemed like a lovely way to spend a warm summer afternoon...
Here, in case you haven't seen it, this is the 3 minute clip of the intro. ☺

 
Gosh, this clip is making me feel rather nostalgic...makes me feel old...
Is it alright if I curl up into a ball and wish that I was 5 again?
*Ahem*
Anyway! Speaking of watercolors, here are a few of my paintings I have recently done:
1920s

1916


1908

1890s

Sorry for the badly taken pictures.
I hope to paint a complete set of fashion paintings ranging from 1810 to maybe 1960. What do you think of the plan?

~ Would you like to see the entire collection if I complete it? ~
~ What year would you most like to see? ~
~ Which of these costumes do you like the best? ~

Leave a comment! I'd love to chat!

God bless!

Megan

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