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Thursday, January 25, 2024

Cookie the Calf Children's Book in Progress


 I'm working on a children's book.

I have the written "script" or "lyrics" completed.

The paintings are a work in progress.

Right now I have sixty paintings. Ten are completed

Here I'm posting ones that are not finished.

Please provide input and advise what you think.

The book is about a calf who saves the prairie.

His name is Cookie. He's a Charolais baby calf.

blossoms- unfinished not happy with color - too much lavender in the flowers need it to dry to rework and add foreground figure

cow bird - left side too painterly drippy maybe for children ?

calf and monarch friend pretty  happy with this one but the calf is skinny

Sacred datura- a poisonous plant the butterfly needs definition and maybe one more large flower.
Datura is poisonous as are many noxious weeds

snow landscape day one just laying down the composition

Another landscape with fire might not add a calf to this one

this one's a hot mess
lol letting it dry to fix it

calf figure not completed  and the fireflies need clarification

maybe to scary - the ghost cow over the moon

happy with the wild color - his face needs completion


milking I think this breezy sketch is done

the monarch friends - those in the background need definition
not happy with the blue sky and his body, almost there

I started this painting a year ago and still haven't completed it the trees are crazy

my song to Albert  

sketch of the weeds I like this simple one

https://youtu.be/rHbt2Sg7ogI



I'm looking for input and guidance please