Menu Man Chef

15x22 watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb hot press paper painted as a demo yesterday in Odessa, TX.  I had only 1 hour to paint this happy menu man and only a few finishing touches were needed.  While working in Albuquerque this tall ceramic statue was greeting customers at a family Mexican cafe so I took photos, then skewed one of them in PhotoShop to use.  He was advertising also for Santa Fe Brewing Company.

Longhorn

15x22 watercolor and colored pencil on 140 lb Arches hot press paper, done yesterday in a direct painting method.  Note the star on his forehead in the shape of the State of Texas.  Hello out there all you UT fans!

Mask-erade

20x26 poured watercolor onto dry Saunders 140 lb cold press paper. I put torn masking tape over it first and long strips at random. With no preconceived ideas I laid torn paper doily placemat pieces then spray painted those. After all dried, removed tape and confetti came to mind, then portions of playing cards painted using real ones for reference. I put 5 and a 3 for 1953 the year I was hatched, and a King of Hearts the K for my name. The 2 of Hearts upper right means the 2 that can go with the 3 card for 23rd, my birthday date. Lastly I used real feathers to paint negatively red, green, yellow, blue feathers around eye holes then developed eye masks in the lower part, two obvious masks and there's a third one hidden.  See if you can spot it.  The whole thing is a mess but reminded me of Mardi Gras and was fun to do a poured fairly abstract piece.

Coffee and Donuts

11x15 gouache watermedia on 140 lb Saunders cold press paper, painted very rapidly and in a loose direct manner. The powdered sugar donuts are just waiting to be dunked.







Ivy Basket

8.5 x 13 watercolor of my hotel ivy basket that was not this colorful, in fact it was ugly fake plastic leaves but the basket was decent. This was drawn from life and painted wet on dry.  It is SOLD.

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.