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Girl With a Bird – #NatureDoodlewash

June 8, 2016June 8, 2016 Carolina Russo | Sa’Reyah

Girl With Bird - Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo — Girl With a Bird – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today for my NatureDoodlewash hike, I am happy to share my watercolor. A portrait that emits a message of love and protection for our animals and nature. Symbolized by the whimsical girl who hold lovingly a yellow bird on her shoulder close to her neck. I have seen many beautiful yellow birds here in California and they inspired me. I enjoyed to paint the “Girl With a Bird” is an inspiring image of love and peace. I hope that you like it as much I do! I always love to read all your beautiful comments ;-) <3

Coming Soon Event!
I also get the chance to announce that on the month of July we will have a great event going on Worldwide!
A month of watercolors! A great challenge, 31 days 31 watercolor paintings! I will participate joining Charlie at Doodlewash he is the creator of this magical event and of “The World Watercolor Month” from now on each year in July will be celebrated! Yay thanks to Charlie! ;-) This event will unite Artists around the World joining together this Ultimate Challenge! I am so honored to participate! This is the first year it just got officially approved! You can learn all about it here!

Details about my doodlewash:
watercolor outlined with black and Brown ink pen. I used French Artists Watercolors Sennelier l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box and Pigma Micron Black ink #005 and Brown ink pen #01 Pink gel pen. Painted over a Mixed Media Sketchbook!

With this watercolor I am also joining Charlie at doodlewash for a #NatureDoodlewash and Laura for Draw a Bird Day over at Create Art Everyday!

You all are welcome to join with your doodlewash! If you do don’t forget to “Tag” your image.

#NatureDoodlewash and #DrawABirdDay

Happy Doodles!

©Carolina Russo

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Art, Creativity, Doodlewash, Drawings, Illustration, Life, Love, My Paintings, Nature, Sketch Book, Watercolors

Spring Bloom – #NatureDoodlewash

June 6, 2016 Carolina Russo | Sa’Reyah

Spring Bloom - Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo — Spring Bloom – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today I wanted to honor the Spring Season with this lovely “Cherry Blossom”.

Before Spring will say goodbye to us and we will welcome the Summer, I wanted to paint one flower that is pretty much a worldwide symbol of this beautiful season.
The Cherry Blossom is recognized to be the National flower of Japan and in Japanese is known as “Sakura”. A flower found now pretty much everywhere in the world and there are many varieties. The flowers are pink or white. In the Japanese culture the Cherry Blossoms symbolize clouds due to their nature and their way of blooming as group of flowers that looks like clouds. This lovely flower also holds various meanings like joy, love, hope, humility and more.

Details about my doodlewash:
watercolor outlined with black ink pen. I used French Artists Watercolors Sennelier l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box and Pigma Micron Black ink #005 painted over a Canson Mixed Media Sketchpad!

With this watercolor I am also joining Charlie at doodlewash for a #NatureDoodlewash

You all are welcome to join with your doodlewash! If you do don’t forget to “Tag” your image.

#NatureDoodlewash

Happy Doodles!

©Carolina Russo

©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com

Art, Creativity, Doodlewash, Drawings, Illustration, My Paintings, Nature, Sketch Book, Watercolors

Hibiscus – #NatureDoodlewash

June 4, 2016June 4, 2016 Carolina Russo | Sa’Reyah

Hibiscus - Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo — Hibiscus – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today is a very hot day here in California!

Yes, we are having an heat wave for this weekend. And with this temperatures isn’t too much fun to go hike!
I love to hike and I usually go several time a week but not today, so I decided that my #NatureDoodlewash hike will be close to home.

My friend has a wonderful plant of Hibiscus outside her backyard and I love the flowers especially the color and shape. I decided to use them for my watercolor.

Hibiscus is better known as the flower symbol of Haiti, but with the climate here the plant grows beautifully!

Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is quite large, containing several hundred species that are native to warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. Member species are often noted for their showy flowers and are commonly known simply as hibiscus, or less widely known as rose mallow. The genus includes both annual and perennial herbaceous plants, as well as woody shrubs and small trees. The generic name is derived from the Greek word ἱβίσκος, which was the name Pedanius Dioscorides gave to Althaea officinalis. (Wikipedia)

With this watercolor I am also joining Charlie at doodlewash for a #NatureDoodlewash

You all are welcome to join with your doodlewash! Tag your image.

#NatureDoodlewash

Happy Doodles!

©Carolina Russo

©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com

Art, Creativity, Doodlewash, Drawings, Illustration, My Paintings, Nature, Sketch Book, Watercolors

Apple Pie – #DoodlewashDinner

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 Carolina Russo | Sa’Reyah

Apple Pie Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today I am bringing to our Doodlewash Dinner a lovely Apple Pie. I missed to post it on the National Apple Pie Day because I had no time to finish my watercolor and finally I had time to finish it today ;-) I think that Apple Pie is always welcome to any dinner. I love anything made with apples especially combined with the flavor of cinnamon.

I hope that you enjoy the pie!

Details about my doodlewash:
watercolor outlined with brown ink pen. I used French Artists Watercolors Sennelier l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box and Pigma Micron Brown ink #01 painted over a Canson Mixed Media Sketchpad!

With this watercolor I am also joining Charlie at doodlewash for a #DoodlewashDinner

You all are welcome to join with your doodlewash! Tag your image #DoodlewashDinner

#DoodlewashDinner

Happy Doodles!

©Carolina Russo

©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com

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Illustration – A Whimsical Creature – #doodlewashaday

May 16, 2016 Carolina Russo | Sa’Reyah

Today I am sharing this watercolor that I made few days ago and I gave the title of “Whimsical Creature”!

I wanted watercolor an imaginary girl who has a beautiful face and that will represent the “Nature” I can see in her the Earth, the Water, the Air.
She brings to the world love, flowers and happiness! <3

With this watercolor I am also joining Charlie at doodlewash for a #doodlewashaday and #DoodlewashDinner

Note>>>(Charlie if you consider that I am bringing the Nature to our dinner it will work!) ;-)

You all are welcome to join with your doodlewash!

Tag your image:

#doodlewashaday #DoodlewashDinner

Happy Doodles!

©Carolina Russo

©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com

Art, Doodlewash, Drawings, Illustration, My Paintings

National DNA Day!

April 25, 2016April 26, 2016 Carolina Russo | Sa’Reyah

Self-Portrait - Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo — Self-Portrait – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today for April celebration I am celebrating the National DNA Day!

For my daily watercolor I challenged myself like never before!!! I had to be able to draw my DNA which comes up to me in form of self-portrait!
The person depicted today is supposed to be me! <3 You can give a look to my About me page or my profile photo and see if my watercolor portrait is a looks-alike. My daughter recognized me soon already from my starting light pencil sketch. She was like wow! This is YOU!!!
Her reaction told me that I was on the right path!
I have to say that I never did my self-portrait before. I was too scared! but today I tried and I am pretty pleased with the result and proud that I tried!
In the past I did lots of fashion design sketches and other figures but never myself!

About the DNA what I can say more than we all have a unique one, and no one else can have the same as yours! Let’s Celebrate our uniqueness!!!

Details about my doodlewash:
watercolor with brown and black ink finish pen. I used one of my favorite French Artists Watercolors Sennelier l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box and Pigma Micron Brown Ink pen #01 and #005 in Black ink over a Mixed Media Sketchbook!

With this Celebration of National DNA Day, I am also join Charlie at doodlewash celebrating a National or International Day with a doodlewash! You are welcome to join with your doodlewash! Tag your image#doodlewashaday.

And I am also join Teresa at Teresa Robeson’s #SelfieArt day

#doodlewashaday #NationalDNADay #SelfieArtday

Happy doodles and have a great day or evening!

Art, Doodlewash, Emotions, Illustration, Indie, Life, Love, My Paintings, Nature, Sketch Book, Watercolors

Save The Elephant Day

April 16, 2016April 16, 2016 Carolina Russo | Sa’Reyah

Save The Elephant Day!

Today my April Celebration and doodlewash is dedicated to a wonderful, intelligent and very sensible animal that I love the Elephant!

They are beautiful wildlife creatures, and they need all of our support to keep them safe and secure in their habitat on this planet. It is very sad that beautiful and fascinating creatures like them are under life threats in some areas, I have seen online horrific photos.

Today is Save The Elephant Day let’s make this not just one day but every day, we can show our love and support spreading the words, visiting websites dedicated to animal protection, we can do anything that we feel, can help to raise awareness in protection of their days to come! As I am also a Jewelry Designer I made a choice long ago and it is to never ever use “Ivory” elements in any of my creations.

My watercolor shows an elephant that is worried about his future, but that is there ready to run free and happy any day of the year without worries.

Details about my doodlewash:
watercolor with black ink finish. I used one of my favorite French Artists Watercolors Sennelier l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box and Pigma Micron black Ink pen #005 and #05 over a Mixed Media Sketchbook!

With this Celebration of Save The Elephant Day, I am also join Charlie at doodlewash celebrating a National or International Day with a doodlewash! You are welcome to join with your doodlewash! Tag your image#doodlewashaday.

#doodlewashaday, #SaveTheElephantDay

Happy doodles and have a wonderful day!

Art, Doodlewash, Illustration, Indie, Life, Nature, Sketch Book, Watercolors

National Dolphin Day!

April 15, 2016April 17, 2016 Carolina Russo | Sa’Reyah

I am a little bit late on this one!

My day was busy, I had very little time to create my watercolor but I did it! This is a late night post of my doodlewash dedicated to a beautiful animal that I adore!!! The Dolphin, I couldn’t miss to celebrate National Dolphin Day! <3 this wonderful and sweet ocean creature. One of my wish is that I would love to swim with one of them ;-) for now I only had the opportunity to see them far away from the beach on the California Coast.

My watercolor shows two happy dolphins because that’s the way I see them. I made it in about 15 minutes.

Details about my doodlewash:
it is a watercolor with ink finish. I used one of my favorite French Artists Watercolors Sennelier l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box and Pigma Micron black Ink pen #2 over a Mixed Media Sketchbook!

With this Celebration of National Dolphin Day, I am also join Charlie at doodlewash celebrating a National or International Day with a doodlewash! You are welcome to join with your doodlewash! Tag your image #doodlewashaday.

Art, Illustration, My Paintings, Nature, Sketch Book, Uncategorized, Watercolors

Watercolors from Nature…

January 10, 2016January 10, 2016 Carolina Russo | Sa’Reyah

Today I like to reblog this post I wrote time ago and I hope that you enjoy it! And to all the Artists that love to paint I hope that you are inspired to try out this because it was a nice fun for me with a lovely outcome!

Carolina Russo |Sa'Reyah

NATURE it is so precious!

Today I will share how I painted those beautiful flowers using some of the most vibrant and pigmented colors found in “Nature”. I always like to experiment new ways to use colors. This time I wasn’t thinking to paint anything, I had no plan and no preparation it was late evening, but…when creativity strike you can’t miss the moment!
Few days ago I got some amazing “Dragon fruit” or also known as “Pitaya” it is a delicious and refreshing Tropical fruit that grows on several Cactus species and has great Health Benefits