Animals for the Kids! 2.0

I'm back with more animal watercolors since they have been so much fun. This little monkey was inspired by a photograph and is for Meghan's son Tommy.

This little guy is for Little Tommy. :)

These lambs are for Kristy and her baby girl!

I added a little extra pink to these lambs! :)

My friends have been using Framebridge for framing. You order a kit on Framebridge to mail in your art, and they mail it back in your fame of choice! Pretty easy!

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Meghan chose white on white...

Lauren chose gold for Pierce's giraffe. I love how they both turned out!

Animals for the kiddies!

I will admit upfront that I was inspired by some original work in Restoration Hardware recently that this post gets its creative juice from. I am planning on giving the giraffe to my friend Lauren's baby Pierce and the elephant to a colleague who recently had a baby boy! If anyone is interested in purchasing, please send a request to kimtraut@yahoo.com and we can pick animals together. :)

Here I am with baby P and his favorite giraffe last summer. Time flies, he is running around riding lawnmowers now!

My watercolor supplies are basic for this project. I love Arches paper for projects like this.

I sketched the animals using some photos of the RH work as a guide. You could also use coloring book pages for inspiration.

After practicing, I drew the giraffe on the watercolor paper in pencil.

I painted the giraffe with watercolor paints and shaded in the spots.

Last step was to add some defining lines in pen and sign off!

The elephant was the same process - sketch, paint and define with pen.

Layers of watercolor shade the drawn shapes

Pen is applied last so it does not run underneath the watercolor.

This was such a fun project. I can't wait to see these framed!