Oak Leaf

Guess what! this is all traditional!!! yep, it's watercolor, colored pencil, and marker, and I only used the computer to adjust the colors to more closely match the original after I scanned it. Photoshop is wonderful but there is something to be said for taking one's colored pencils out in the backyard and drawing out in the sun, particularly when one has been trapped in a dingy sunless frigid concrete jungle for the past eight months.

I was really tempted to add a wallpaper pattern or something in the background of this, but I was convinced not to when I started working on another one - when they're viewed together, the simplicity really works.