The monthly eBay Nibblefest Art Contest is on again. My entry this month is a rather unlovely 'Iguana' watercolor with an acrylic background... I guess it is properly a 'mixed media' piece. I don't expect many bidders, as this month's 'reptile' theme is not your average cup of tea. But he will go to an 'aficionado' of the cold blooded animal world who will happily give him a home.

Nibblefest rules are that each artist put up one piece which follows the theme ('reptile' this month) and be available for auction at the rock bottom starting price of 99 cents. Last month's piece went to a lovely person in Florida...

‘White Bears’, monoprint with colored pencil (10”x8”), sepia ink on Stonehenge paper
‘Osos blancos’, monoprint con lapices de colores (25cmx20cm), tinta sepia en papel Stonehenge

This is a 1980 AP I did when learning sugar lift. Amazingly I still have it but, as a failed print, I decided to play with Prismacolor pencils. Just as Belinda Del Pesco said, the dried ink takes colored pencil nicely, almost like soft pastels.

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Este es un PA de un grabado de 1980 que hice cuando estaba aprendiendo ‘sugar lift’. Asombrosamente lo tiene aun … pero como era un grabado fallado decidi jugar con lapices Prismacolor. Como decia Belinda Del Pesco, la tinta seca tome los lapices muy bien, casi como pastels suaves.

'Mountain Fog' (5"x7") is a mixed media of soft pastels and oils. I started painting this plein aire one evening while looking down from Karr Canyon toward the White Sands area in southern New Mexico. It was done on site with soft pastels and then I worked it some more in the studio with oil paints.

(SOLD)

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'Neblina de la Montana' (13cmx18cm) es una mezcla de pastel suave y oleo. Empece esta pintura un tardecer mirando desde el Canon Karr hacia White Sands en el sur de Nuevo Mexico. Fue hecho alli con pastel suave y luego la trabaje mas en el estudio con oleo.

(Vendido)