ANIMAL AND WILDLIFE CHALLENGE FEB/MARCH 2026

[pcj]

Joy : Beautiful little lizard ! You handled those greens extremely well . I love his/her expression
and the background !
Cheers
Patricia

 

[Donna T]

Anne, very cute lion cub!

Joe, wonderful drawings, as always!

Joy, I love the lizard too, and the background is so interesting! Greens are hard to work with but yours all work well together.

 

[Joy]

Thanks for your kind comments and encouragement!

 

[Ayin Es]

Hi all. This is a message to Jade because we don't know how get a hold of her. I accidentally deleted her account last week. I feel like a huge idiot, but it was permanent. Now all her info is gone, including her email address. I don't know how to contact her to let her to tell her. If anyone is in touch with her (or if she sees this), please tell her to sign up to the website again and that it was a big mistake on my part. And that I'm so very sorry.

 

[ams]

White Dog, about 8″x8″, Inktense in XL Mixed Media Sketchbook.

 

[LizC]

That is impressive, especially since white dogs are difficult to paint, at least for me.

 

[Sanlynn]

So very well done, Anne! I love it.

 

[pcj]

Anne: Lovely white doggie. Beautiful eyes !
Cheers
Patricia

 

[ams]

Without realizing it, I did the lion cub again! I knew I had done one recently but didn't realize it was the same challenge. (I love painting lions.)

I did this version differently though. This is just inktense without any ink lines. I think I like this one better.

This was an extremely limited palette. I just used Baked Earth and Deep Indigo which would be the Inktense version of Burnt Sienna and French Ultramarine.

This one is about 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" in XL Mixed Media sketchbook.

 

[Sanlynn]

This is pastel pencil with soft pastel background on grey sanded paper, 2 1/2x 8 1/2”. It was hard to get the head just right because it was so small.

 

[pcj]

Anne. Lovely lion cub. Very skillful use of very limited palette.
Cheers
Patricia

 

[pcj]

Sanlynn. Beautiful deer. I really like the crop.
Cheers
Patricia

 

[ams]

Golden Pheasant. Inktense in XL Mixed Media sketchbook, about 6"x6".

 

[pcj]

Anne. Lovely pheasant. I love his expression.
Cheers
Patricia

 

[Vivien]

Thanks for this Patricia! I havent been posting or painting for a while, but this new Challenge is wanting me to get into it again.
Good idea to have all the Sites Challenges together, well done Creative Spark!

 

[Terri]

Thanks for this Patricia! I havent been posting or painting for a while, but this new Challenge is wanting me to get into it again.
Good idea to have all the Sites Challenges together, well done Creative Spark!

Thank you, Vivien! I hope one of the new Challenges inspires you to reach for a brush soon!

 

[pcj]

Hi Viv, It's very nice to see you, how are you ?
Cheers
Patricia

 

[Vivien]

Without realizing it, I did the lion cub again! I knew I had done one recently but didn't realize it was the same challenge. (I love painting lions.)

I did this version differently though. This is just inktense without any ink lines. I think I like this one better.

This was an extremely limited palette. I just used Baked Earth and Deep Indigo which would be the Inktense version of Burnt Sienna and French Ultramarine.

This one is about 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" in XL Mixed Media sketchbook.

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Love your Inktense work Anne!

 

[Vivien]

Hi Viv, It's very nice to see you, how are you ?
Cheers
Patricia

Good thanks Patricia, how are you now?

 

[Vivien]

Here is my blue spotted rabbit fish in watercolor, 11 x 8, on Arches 140CP. I was determined to do the BG in one go. I tried rubbing alcohol over the wet wash in the BG to try to get some texture, but maybe the wash was too wet. It also caused a wee bit of bleeding of the paint onto the other side of the paper. Fortunately it is minimal and I can use the other side.

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Lovely fish painting

Here is my blue spotted rabbit fish in watercolor, 11 x 8, on Arches 140CP. I was determined to do the BG in one go. I tried rubbing alcohol over the wet wash in the BG to try to get some texture, but maybe the wash was too wet. It also caused a wee bit of bleeding of the paint onto the other side of the paper. Fortunately it is minimal and I can use the other side.

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Lovely fish painting Joy