Sai Champion

Watercolor painting of a green leaf with rusty red brown edges on a gray background.

I didn’t mean to leaf you hanging.😅 Sorry I’ve been MIA lupus has been kicking my butt (& my kidneys, heart, & joints). I’m wrapped up in hope and ready to try moving again. The battered tree outside my window is sprouting new leaves and flowers so I can release this leaf saved from last season. 🍃🍂

Wow! Thank you☺️

Silhouette of 2 fisherman on a small simple wooden boat floating on yellowy sunset-tinged water One is standing casting a large net the other is sitting down rowing. The bird has its wings spread about to land back on the deck.

Casting the Net
Sri Lankan Fishermen

#BlueSkyArtShow #Silhouette #Photography #SriLanka

Gulls perch on the stumps of an old pier and fishing boats are moored behind. As the sun begins to rise, the smooth sea is pale blue and the sky has a pinkish purple hue against the silhouettes.

An old favourite of mine. #BlueSkyArtShow #silhouette #EastCoastKin #SensoryArt #light #acoloradAyPRIL #blue #ArtYear #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #sunrise

Watercolor painting of 5 birds,+ 1 in flight, on a wire over a tree silhouetted by the orange sunset sky.

#BlueskyArtShow #silhouette
Birds on a wire at sunset

I was in a mood too. 😂

Thank you!

Watercolor painting of two lambs at play

Day 1 of #Capypril2025 Fun!
#Watercolor #ArtYear
Lambs frolicking in the field with the joy of living, spring, growth, and limbs that work seems the best of fun.

Making art and appeasing the green owl are the only things I can do right now.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Every six months a friend takes me out to the coast to see sky. 😂

Watercolor painting of a man’s hand holding a tiny baby’s hand. The baby can be seen from chest to thigh. The baby chest has a medical monitor attached.

Day 31- Connect #Art
A perfect re-post for this last prompt of #MakersmARTch

My husband connecting with my preemie babe. 🥰

Pencil sketch of a falcon’s head and shoulders.

Day 29- Hook #Sketch #MakersmARTch #Pencil
How about the hook(ed) beak of this falcon? I’m studying books and videos by John Muir Laws on sketching birds. I want to improve my eye and my speed so I can capture the birds that visit me each day.

Watercolor painting of a hedgehog by the side of a fence in a pile of green and yellow leaves. Its quills have stabbed one golden leaf which is stuck on the back of the critter.

Day 25-Stab #MakersmARTch
#Watercolor #Art
I’m running a bit behind. Life keeps life-ing, but sometimes my body doesn’t body. I feel like a hedgehog but all my spines are pointing inward. 😣Here’s a little hedgehog 🦔 whose body has taken a stab at a golden leaf.

Godriguez wearing a Conquistador helmet hides in the shadows with his dagger in hand

Taking a #stab at today's #makersmARTch

"They think I'm hiding in the shadows, but I am the shadows..."

#artofselfportraiture #selfportrait #godriguez #selfportraiture #g+circle #eastcoastkin

Pen and ink illustration of a thin and spiky man (maybe he’s a vampire) sitting in a plush chair wearing a floral print ruffled shirt with a vest and breeches. His expression is angry and annoyed.

Day 24- Pattern #Ink #MakersmARTch
The Count has little patience for interruptions.
Pattern meditation and a foray into character design.

This is a plein air pencil sketch of the shadow a tree reflected in some fairly calm water

#makersmartch #pattern #drawing #pleinair #artyear

Thank you very much, Bernard. ☺️

Pencil and ink drawing of Sasquatch (Big Foot) crouching in a stand of trees and ferns, picking flowers. The cartoon style creature is looking towards the viewer with a surprised expression. Text on page: “April 2, 2016”, “#30 day Challenge day 2”, “Caught in a Private Moment”, [the artist’s signature], “Draw something mythical”.

Day 22- Draw #Sketchbook #Ink #Pencil #MakersmARTch
Another blast from the past. This prompt from a 30 day challenge in 2016, Draw Something Mythical, seemed perfect for this prompt too. Meet Big Foot, Caught in a Private Moment.

Three pen and ink horses galloping in water with washes of blue water and green grass.

#MkrsmARTch
22|draw

First I draw a pattern, next I gather wool, silk, ribbons, lace, fabrics, dyed cheesecloth, floss and beads & the fun begins!
#fabriccollage
#draw
#textileart
#artyear #equine
#ArtShare
#art #sciart #artshow #onlybeautifulthings
#uplift #WIP #horse #sew

Might save a life.

Monochromatic Watercolor painting of multiple waterfalls. Birds fly over the chasm.

Day 21- Spray #MakersmARTch #Watercolor #Art
It’s a challenge for me to paint loose. My art came out of me trying to control something in my life. My new goal is to trust and let go of that hard won control. Here is my attempt to capture the waterfall spray without touching it.

Colorful koi are stencil spray painted onto black asphalt in an alley. There are a lot of them, and they are swimming different directions.

#MakersmARTch

Day 21 | #Spray

Spray-painted koi graffiti on the asphalt in an alley in Melbourne.

#EastCoastKin #StreetArt #Graffiti #Koi #Melbourne #StreetPhotography

Monotone print of a fantastical landscape with under water or extraterrestrial elements and a pair of eyes floating in the sky.

Day 20-Print #MakersmARTch #Art
Look what I found! In the dusty spiderweb festooned corner of the garage I unearthed an old portfolio from my school days. Here is a print from my printmaking class. I remember bleeding a lot during this class. I’m glad the linoleum isn’t as hard to carve nowadays.

Imprint of bird wing feathers in the snow.

Wing print in the snow. This most commonly happens when a raptor drops down to catch or attempt to catch a critter for a meal. I had to dig back to a photo from 2018 for today.
#MakersmARTch day 20 #print

Watercolor painting of a burning ivory colored tapered candle.

Day 19- Fire #MakersmARTch #Art #Watercolor #Haiku
Flame meditation
seeking light that burns within controlled breath of life

Photo of a stained glass pattern watercolor painting in a watercolor notebook displayed on a clear plastic easel atop a wooden desk with clutter in background.

Day 18- Glass #MakersmARTch #Watercolor #Art
Stained glass-ish. It is raining and all my joints hate me. It is embarrassing how long it took me to do this picture but making straight-ish lines and creating some kind of order feels good even if my hands are shaking. Maybe because they are shaking.

Anyone recall these mini Wheaton glass bottles? When I was a kid, my dad placed them in all the windows of our house and I remember how excited I would get to see the sun come through them and shine all the colors on the walls in the early evening.

#MakersmARTch #mARTch #Glass
#Photography #art

Photo of a hand holding a small watercolor notebook with a painting of a thimble and green spool of thread over a wooden surface with a watercolor palette and water brush on it.

Watercolor of a thimble and needle with a part of a spool of green thread in the upper right corner and a thread of green looped along the lower left corner.

Day 17-Thimble #Art #Watercolor #MakersmARTch
I started this in the waiting room at the dentist’s office and finished it at home. I figured one of my small notebooks would be good for this one. A wee bit of green for St. Patrick and a clean check up for me. 😁🦷✨

Watercolor painting of trees, growing up around a sculpture from antiquity. It’s an ancient stone head with a glowing ruby in the center of its forehead. The scene might depict the ruins of an ancient East Asian civilization, somewhere.

Day 15- Sculpt #Art #MakersmARTch #Watercolor
You know the saying “Do it scared”? Posting here I often have to “Do it frustrated”. There are scenes from a dream I keep trying to paint and I can’t seem to get them right. I will keep trying though and post even if I’m mad, frustrated, or scared.

I am also avoiding Amazon. So I did some searching. Try thepleasureofwriting.com
The other places I’ve seen it are price gouging.

Thank you. 😊 I saw the brand first in a Japanese bookstore, but I got this bottle through Amazon in 2019. The color is Misty Rain (Gray) in English.