Shtern Family Stories Book development

Guashe on watercolor paper.
More development for the kids book I am working on.

Attemp to Paint real life with guashe " A"

Cold Canadian winter. Booo.
View out of my parents kitchen window.
I really want to learn to paint. So until I find a good teacher I will teach myself. I plan to paint every weekend, still life, views out the window, etc.

Lucy Arrives at Ms. Tiggy Winkles House at the very very top of the hill ANNNND Sketchbook sketches

block in painting rough values.
I am thinking of painting some of the cactus designs I had developed earlier. And trees at some point for the other levels of the hill as I develop this story further.

Since I have not posted sketches from my sketchbook in a long time I decided to do so this time.
My Mother and her Brother Genya amidst an important family discussion in Kaliningrad Russia.
My friend Christina discovered this French Cultural Center in Toronto. I like practicing my French so we go and sit on fold out chairs in this little quaint french environment and listen to different musical performance guests they bring in. The week I did these sketches it was a concerto ...they played a Philip Glass song I really like. I kept drawing the one dude playing the chello because he was really funny when he concentrated and he was a redhead and super skinny which made it even better.
The couple on the right hand page was the best dressed couple I have seen in a long time. I like clothes....so I notice.

"Have you seen my hankercheif?"

Painting for the tiggy winkle story playing with brush stroke and texture. This is in the beginning of the story. Lucy wakes up and cannot find her hankercheif. So she asks the animals at the farm first if they have seen it before she ventures up the hill.