Indian Corn Harvest

15x11 of multicolored harvest corn, an imaginary scene painted today in an hour using only a #28 round brush on Italia 140 lb watercolor paper.  No drawing was done.  I spritzed the paper then began laying in darks first, a mix of Midnight Blue and Copper Kettle (American Journey) tube paints.  Other colors are Daniel Smith.

Woodland Leaves

7.5 x 11 watercolor of a grouping of white and green variegated leaves photographed in Wales by Lin on WetCanvas! a feature of our current Weekend Drawing Event.  This was painted wet on dry in a direct manner; background is negative painting and imaginary.

Pretty Boy Peacock

15x22 wet in wet watercolor painted quickly and spontaneously of this proud peacock strutting his stuff for the camera.  Ref courtesy WetCanvas! weekend drawing event 2010.  Paints used:  Daniel Smith, American Journey, and DaVinci; paper 140 lb cold press Strathmore.

God Bless America

Liberty says "God Bless America" on this Lord's Day remembering those fallen heroes 10 years ago on September 11, 2001.  Let us never, ever forget and cherish our freedom that is not free.

Neighbor's Cat

24x18 watercolor of a very curious cat looking outside his house to some intriguing object, probably a bird or a moving tree branch or even another cat.  Painted wet in wet on Canson Montval block I used Daniel Smith, DaVinci, and American Journey paints.



Chili with Pink Zinnia - a pet portrait

15x22 watercolor of my tuxedo kitty named Chili.  He is now 10 years old this month and I've painted him many times.  A few years back I set up a still life of fresh zinnias in a sunflower pitcher, an old quilt and napkin and he jumped on the table top and decided to be part of the not-so-still still life.  Although this painting was not done today I'm posting Chili's portrait in honor of his birthday.  It was painted wet in wet with no masking for his whiskers.  This set up was in my living room that has dark Hunter green walls...there appeared tiny marks in the paint so after it dried I added different pieces of color for an unusual pattern.

Puerto Rico Condo

19x12.5 watercolor on Italia 140 lb paper, American Journey paints begun yesterday and finished today. I took this photo of our condo on our first visit to Puerto Rico in 1995 with the intention of painting it someday, but didn't realize it would take me this long! This is wet on dry painting darks first.