Digital Paintings - Violet Adams

Below is a gallery of Kris's latest, most recent work - her digital paintings, which she did right up until the very end.
Most of these digital paintings were done as part of various online, digital painting communities under the alias "Violet Adams".
The titles of these pieces are her's, along with the included descriptions she wrote to accompany them.
Check out her YouTube videos at the end of the gallery.

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Eye See You - "Who doesn't love eyes? And don't artists love to paint them?"

Free Tibet - "I started this drawing after I watched a Netflix documentary about a Tibetan musician living in Switzerland. Tibet has fought so long and so hard to get their ancient lifestyle back for more than fifty years. Now they have no country, so I thought that sure sounds like a pirate to me. So I call him a Tibetan pirate. Even though we think of pirates today as bad guys, some of the modern pirates, as well as Tibetans, are fighting for good things, like family, freedom, a natural lifestyle, a deep history of tradition, and an end to years of persecution."

Greek Goddess - Artemis

Modesty - "Definition: FREEDOM from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions."

Extinct Bird - "It is estimated that less than 3% of the bird species that ever were, exist today. One of the most devastating catastrophic event that ever happened to our feathered co-inhabitants of planet Earth occurred when the 'fine ladies' of western civilization took a temporary fancy to the plums of the most beautiful birds. These birds were slaughtered in the thousands to acquire their magnificent tail feathers. Some of these feathers were five feet long or longer. This is my imagined extinct bird species for the extinct animal compo."

Peace - "I needed to feel some peace in my life today, so I drew a picture of it."

Springtime in Alaska - "There are so many amazing things about being in Alaska, but my favorite is being around big animals that still live and roam and have babies. It makes me feel little, but also gives me a sense of where we humans really fit into the world...kind of balances things out."

American Kestrel

Greek Grandmother

Cat - "Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians worshiped cats as gods ........cats have never forgotten that!"

Girls and Horses Go Together

The Escort - "No-one knows for sure what happens when the soul leaves this reality, but I always wonder - how will I know what to do or where to go or a million other questions. Apparently the Egyptians were concerned about those questions too, as they did lots of preparations for the other world. The Bible talks about angel escorts, some religions discuss how long the soul hangs around after the body stops.... Iap's beautiful scene made me think about all this and seemed like a perfect spot for the escort to show up, to show the way."

April Showers Bring May Flowers - "And wet little birdies!"

Crusader - "Fight the good fight"

The Four Horsemen

Unexpected Company

Spring Cleaning - "The only mating storks left in the US are the wood storks and they are on the endangered species list. ... When you just see them walking around fishing and eating, they appear a bit awkward; but when they fly, they are magnificent."

Morning Has Broken

First - "This was the first drawing I did with the sketch club app and I used a reference from a well known classical painter. At the time, I didn't understand the protocol for posting a drawing I had done from a reference. I had wandered into SketchClub with no prior insights and thought it was just another drawing app. I had no idea about the community support that I would receive as well as the occasional social blunders I would inadvertently make. Still not sure who this artist was, but this is a highly recognizable painting that I used as a reference. It was fun redrawing this for the daily challenge. It really took me back a year ago to when I first started this digital art journey here on SketchClub."

Spring Will Come Knocking

South Park, Colorado

Three Little Mice

Friends - "Come in all shapes and sizes."

Zelda - "This is for my Grandson who loves Zelda. We named our new puppy, Zelda. He showed me some books, and I was surprised to see the Shoebill bird (who is called a Loftwing in Link). I love Shoebills."

Tribute to Sketchclub Artists - "This is for the tribute comp to honor all the artists that share their art here on SketchClub. Although we are lucky enough to have this forum to share our art, we all know that art is created in that deep place of solitude that artists go to where we find our individual vision. This is also for the artists who have been misunderstood or hurt and have left SketchClub for one reason or another. It is my hope that they will never give up their journey of creativity."

To see videos of how she worked
and created these digital paintings,
check out her YouTube page here:

Violet Adams' Sketchclub page
Tribute to Violet Adams on Sketchclub
(follow link to thread in description)