Love Climbs Heart Balloon

11.25 x 8.75 acrylics on gessoed 140 lb watercolor paper done last week in Bob Burridge's Lubbock TX workshop.  Bob showed us how to take a support that had leftover paint dabs and smears then negatively paint around a large heart shape air balloon and ladder.  This is the same concept used on how he develops floral bouquets, etc.
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Red Fat Pear

11x7.5 acrylics on gessoed watercolor paper done on first day of Bob Burridge's class Monday of this week.  Based on a value study this pear radiates heat with its warm colors.
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Red Roses Bouquet

11x7.5 acrylics painted yesterday while in Bob Burridge's class, an exercise in negative painting.  Using a gessoed support of watercolor paper that had random color marks all over it from leftover paint, the vase was painted around then imaginary blooms and the table.  Flower areas began with a red rose shape upper left as point of interest, larger and brighter.  Parts of the original paper show through if you look closely at the vase and the bouquet itself.  On Bob's color wheel, red was selected as the main interest point while turquoise blue is dominant hue.
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Black and White Pear values

11x7.5 acrylics on gessoed Fabriano 140 lb hot press paper done this morning in Bob Burridge's Lubbock workshop.  This was the second one we did as first was a round ball showing direction of light source, shadow side, and cast shadow as is shown here.  Later we took a damp paper towel and rubbed a transparent color glaze over it.  Sponsored by the West Texas Watercolor Society the class is held at the Ashmore Inn there.
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