Challenge # 89: Buttons

As a military item collector, and also collector of buttons......someone I knew gave these two buttons to me. He said his father was in the navy during WWII, and the navy uniform button was his, and the he aquired the nazi uniform button during combat. I guess these could have also fit the antique catagory as well.
The scanner seems to brighten the image a bit....as I believe the color looks a little better in person....a little darker, as I had spent a considerable amount of time trying to get the tarnished, or bronzed color of the buttons. The scanner just brightened up the dark areas way too much. Perhaps I might take a photo instead.
This was done with ink and watercolor pencils.

Challenge # 92 : Bag N' Boots

It took me awhile to find a brown paper bag to do this challenge.....but I did find one....one that was stored away most likely for years. I can't tell you when the last was that I received a paper bag at the grocery store.
I wanted to draw a smaller paper bag at first....I had some other ideas...but since I could not find a small bag, I had to use the larger grocery paper bag....and this was the idea I came up with. I took a pair of my boots.....I have no idea why......and slapped the bag down on top of them. This was done in watercolor and ink.