Boy with Red Beach Pail vignette

15x22 watercolor vignette painted wet in wet of a young boy playing on the beach with his red pail, scooping sand and having fun.  I took his picture on our last trip to Puerto Rico in the brilliant sunshine.  Support is 140 lb Arches cold press paper with Daniel Smith pigments.

Sunsplashed House

6x10 watercolor on Saunders 300 lb cold press paper, Daniel Smith paints begun yesterday then finished up this afternoon.  This is a closely cropped old white house in Charlottetown, photo courtesy Wendy of WetCanvas, and is featured in July's Landscape forum. I love the splashy shadows made by the huge tree on the flowers, picket fence, and front foreground.

Backlit Poppies

15x11 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper of mixed color poppies backlit by the sun.  This painting is SOLD!

Pair of Ponies

8 1/4 x 4 3/4 watercolor on Bristol 300 series paper over Tombow brush pen sketch as seen in below image; done this afternoon with Daniel Smith paints:  Quinacridone burnt orange and gold, UB, green gold, arylide, carbazole violet.  I've been wanting to do a line and wash work for awhile.  This pair of ponies will be featured this weekend on WetCanvas! online All Media Arts Forum.  Photo courtesy Maureen.

Kool Koi

15x11 watercolor on Yupo medium weight synthetic paper, drawn and painted today on the backside of another work.  These 3 guys look like they're up to no good swimming there in their own little world.  I used Daniel Smith transparent pyrrol orange, gamboge, quinacridone burnt orange and quin gold, yellow, UB, and American Journey Midnight Blue and raw umber violet.

Fourth of July Porch

12x9 watercolor of an American iconic white frame house with welcoming porch plants and of course flying the Stars and Stripes. Today we celebrate our Independence as a free nation.  God Bless America!!!

Poppy Presentation

11x15 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper finished today; this poppy field is similar to one called Pops in the Park.  I'll be doing a demo on a scene similar in August for Painting Friends at Indian Rocks Beach, FL.  It was painted wet in wet but as it is still so dry here I kept rewetting the paper then gave up and worked wet on dry using Daniel Smith, American Journey, DaVinci pigments. Some negative painting of shapes can be seen here and there.