Monday, March 29, 2010
Roses Garden
9x12 watercolor, an imaginary scene not drawn but painted with #12 round on dry Canson paper. Negative leaves form a foreground of garden delights for Spring.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Windowsill
Pedro
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Belize Gallery
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Trying to Set up a Still Life & Look What Happens
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Prickly Poppies
15x22 watercolor collage on 140 lb Saunders Waterford paper painted today. Reference pix were combinations of white wild poppies I took a few years ago but never used; a big clump of these paper thin flowers grow just down Scurry Street from the studio. I put small amounts of white tissue onto the paper using matte medium then drew the flowers when dry. Poppy centers contain latex and can be deadly and quite thorny.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Red Velvet
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Caladium Collision
Friday, March 5, 2010
Sunflower Mosaic - demo for WetCanvas!
This is watercolor collage on matboard, 20 x 9.25 inches, drawn with colored pencil done today as a WetCanvas demo. I used slick toilet seat cover torn in pieces and applied with Liquitex matte medium, let dry overnight, then drew my flowers with the CP. Paints used were American Journey Midnight Blue, Prussian (DaVinci), Arylide (DV), Copper Kettle, Harvest Gold, Skip's Green, Mint Julep, Gamboge, Taylor's Flamingo Pink, Halloween Orange (AJ), Grumbacher Red, and quinacridone magenta.
With this technique less water is needed and repeated washes usually are in order to obtain correct values. At the end I drew leaf outline shapes in the dark blue background with my brush for some negative shapes.
Monday, March 1, 2010
The White Rabbit or The One I Let Get Away
Here is my little ceramic bean bag bunny in his clown suit sitting in my sunny window still life, a full sheet 22x30 inches watercolor. I painted this a number of years ago and it was my first painting to be published in Christopher Willard's book Color Mixing a 12 Hue Method. It won several Best of Show awards but I sold it and now it is known as the one that got away. But I took lots of photos when I set the still life up at our first house so should get them out and get to work. Since it is almost bunny time (Spring, remember?) thought you might like to see this.
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