Abe's Bandit revisited - Wanda's Art Challenge

Many already know about Abe Lincon's extraordinary photo blogs, with especially amazing My Birds Blog.

Wanda's art challenge included an adorable racoon photo from Abe's photo collection. I'm taking a drawing class and tried to keep in mind all the various lessons, on contour, negative space, proportion, etc. The outcome was not as charming and sweet as Abe's photo, but I am so pleased that I gave it a try. Thank you, Wanda, for the hosting the chanllenge.

Wanda's challenge and her beautiful watercolors can be found at Watercolors by Wanda.

For Wanda's Fall Art Challenge

My feeble attempt with pastels at capturing the vivid colors of an autumn leaf. (I worked on it some more to try to give it more depth and overworked it to the point that it was not worth keeping. I'm glad I had the photo of the better if not very good work.)

Wanda's challenge and her beautiful watercolors can be found at Watercolors by Wanda.