Seasons Series: Spring Final

Final color to my spring illo. Sketch here... http://christinawald.blogspot.com/2010/07/seasons-series-spring-sketch.html

I was a little shocked that the sketch for this was from July. Time is passing way too quickly! When will I finish fall I wonder?

Seasons Series: Spring Sketch

A couple months ago, I posted the finish of the first painting in a series for the seasons. This is the sketch for spring with a lot of cherry blossoms, a big horn lamb, bluebirds and a bunny. It will be a long while before I can color this, but I can hardly wait. Here is winter: http://christinawald.blogspot.com/2010/04/finish-of-winter.html

Finish of Winter

I was waiting to get feeback for the cover sketch on my next book and finished this up while waiting. It is part of a four illustration series based on the four seasons. Here is the explanation and sketch.

Winter Sketch

This is a sketch for a series of paintings I am doing for the seasons. The plan is to make some sort of 2011 calendar on one page with the four paintings. The New Yorker did it so why not?

This is winter so the palette will be mostly monochromatic. Her dress is the hoop underskirt representing the trees without leaves. Fall will be her dress in oranges and reds and tattered and so on... I promise sketching this did not summon the bit of snow we got last night ;)