I'm glad you're trying watercolour because I think the medium would lend itself to your style. If you can find it, there is a book by a woman I think you would really like. It's called 'How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself' by Nita Engle. Thanks for sharing your class paintings. It takes awhile to work out all the properties of the different pigments--transparent, opaque, staining, etc. Then you have to play with working wet in wet, wet on dry, dry on dry, and refine your lost and found edge technique. It's hard and frustrating but also the most fun and magical when it works, IMO.

Something like this, Teapot? :)

Mmmm! Nice interplay of the warm and cool colours together! I got the sense of a forest fire. I am liking how you keep the movement and looseness with your paints. Though I can admire the control achieved, I don't find myself liking watercolours that get too 'tight', too detailed. This painting has a nice balance of a little detail with a lot of impression.

that face is really lovely and the colors are great.. but if you can soften the lines around the nipples and use a darker flesh tone to outline them, they would look more natural.

thanks BDE, I knew I didn't like the way they looked but did not know how to fix them

uhha.

Whoppers eh.

I think i'll just have some whoppers yo'..

oww, great reencarnation of spiderman; can fly a nd suck at the same time; hee hee i mean, "sucker"; fine painting

I think chibi likes you =) Cool draw! He looks shinny =) mmmmm...me loves'em shinny =) Welcome to 2d!

Looks like he would be crunchy and good with ketchup.....welcome aboard ye' scurvy dog..

LOL, Dave. True...thx FC! The color reminded me of green apple jolly ranchers...lol! yummmm!

It reminds me of cotton candy. :D

mmmmm..I love the jolly rancher chews...I love that little swirled piece at the bottom...

it was just playin last night...I've been wanting to draw a fishy since I saw yours, Ms. Elly! ♥

Fish on the brain...

That's an interesting looking fishie, but I wouldn't want to eat it.....:)

So true. And you can add money, in the background, which is the real source of all wars.

Hey!..that looks like Captain Caveman.. http://www.verticaledgeentertainment.com/captain_caveman.jpg

damn...
well, it's gone, but i will comment for your other one anyway because i thought it was fantastic. I thought the comment you left on it was equally wonderful. It felt to me oddly connected to what your son is studying. like that subject pervaded your subject. It was great, I hope you saved it.
I wouldn't be surprised if he/you already know about these but;
read the book, Night by Eli Weisel? It's about the Holocaust through the eyes of a 15 year old, may be too old for your son, but read it anyway.
look at the documentary and all that it includes of "The Paper Clip Project" http://whitwellschoolmiddle.org/homepage_pc.cfm?id=78

Good job :)

yeah, I didn't much like that other one... thanks Suntan... I will look into that book for him, he's 14

This is awesome! Wonderful work!:))