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I stated with a rough pencil sketch then inked it with a brush pen and colored it with watercolor and gouache on a watercolor postcard. Reference I used was this excellent photo - https://www.pexels.com/photo/tree-wild-squirrel-monkey-97827/ photo by Mike from Pexels.com

My next monkey watercolor -well, mostly - there is a touch of acrylic paint on the eyes. I do not know why they are called red-handed - since they seem to have yellow hands.

I used brush pen and watercolors. The most challenging part was holding back on excessive pen lines to render the fur, using patches of paint instead. Although I think the background is a bit dark and there a few mistakes, I feel that learned from this.

I am trying to work on a more loose style. Again, this was made in Corel Painter.

Made with Corel Painter. I'm trying out a more loose, imaginative style.

I am continuing to try to paint without outlining in pen first - just starting with a pencil sketch. I used this awesome photo as reference: https://www.pexels.com/photo/chimpanzee-sitting-on-gray-stone-in-closeup-photography-during-daytime-33787/

I am trying to learn how to draw from my imagination and without reference, so I started a series of fish illustrations to practice this.

I am not sure which kind of monkey this guy is...he seems to be in the Golden Monkey species. This is another "digital" monkey.

A combination of pen lines, watercolor and acrylic paint on a watercolor postcard. Reference from https://www.pexels.com/photo/yellow-and-black-baboon-146512/

I started with watercolor and watercolor, but then realised I needed a more opaque black and switched to gouache, acrylic and brush pens for the final touches. Most of the original looseness was lost after that, however he looks more accurate now I think.

Here is one of my sketchbook illustrations of a friendly and very colorful jumping spider I recently met. I used IroJiten colored pencils.

I got out of my comfort zone and tried painting a watercolor without an ink drawing underneath - just pencil lines.

I find backgrounds in paintings challenging so I deliberately tried to make a more complex background with this one. I sometimes have difficulty deciding when to finish and in this case maybe I overworked the background a bit too much. Still, I feel I learned a lot from the process.

Last week I bought a tulip to and decided to make it the subject of my painting.

This rare fish often adopts elaborate though usually ineffective disguises to spy on other fishes and for his own amusement.