Study in Blue and Yellow
watercolor on paper
31-03-2015
My final abstract for this month. I must say I like it a lot!
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Desert Sun: 28-03-2015
Desert Sun
watercolor on paper
28-03-2015
Created this in Juicy Luci class this morning. We were working with brushstrokes and getting a variety of them on the paper and then adding more and more detail. And working with a limited palette.
At first I had a deciduous tree on the left of the painting but it didn't go with the desert scene so I added the cactus and tore the tree off. This could use a few tender loving tweaks. I go too fast and it looks sloppy. Sigh.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Nestled In a Fertile Valley: 26-03-2015
Nestled In a Fertile Valley
watercolor on paper
26-03-2015
This is just the start of something I did in Tom Scott's class this morning. He added the shapes of the dark trees and buildings in the green. Not sure where I am going with this, but will work on it next week in class.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Peony (2): 25-03-2015
Peony (2)
watercolor pencil on paper
25-03-2015
I darkened the colors in this piece from yesterday. It looks better but still needs something. The watercolor pigments didn't blend very well.
Last night, I attended a watercolor pencil, pastel, and charcoal demo at my local, independent art store. It was great. Lots of technique tips and free samples. In addition, I won the door prize because it was almost my birthday. Set of 24 watercolor pencils from Kimberly/General Pencil Company. I was very excited.
Kathi Hanson, the artist and demonstrator, had high energy and lots of tips. One of the best ones was to make a watercolor pencil palette for on the go. Just take a sheet of 90# plain paper and lay down pigment from your pencils. When you get to where you are going, you can simply wet the pigment with your brush and you are ready to paint!
Here is a photo of hers:
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Peony: 24-03-2015
Peony
watercolor pencils on paper
24-03-2015
Love the colors. Need some more work.
Monday, March 23, 2015
And Yet Another Mountain Landscape: 23-03-2015
And Yet Another Mountain Landscape
watercolor on paper
23-03-2015
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Leaf It Alone: 22-03-2015
Leaf It Alone
watercolor on paper
22-03-2015
Not quite finished with this one.
A little more tweaking the details.
23-03-2015
A little more tweaking the details.
23-03-2015
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Parked on a Park Bench: 21-03-2015
Parked on a Park Bench
watercolor on butcher paper
21-03-2015
This was from the Saturday watercolor class I am taking. We worked on adding suggestions of figures to a landscape. I like this one. Very loose and the colors are good. It's on cheap butcher paper that we used for practice.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Blue Mountain Ranch: 19-03-2015
Blue Mountain Ranch
watercolor on paper
19-03-2015
This is the product of a watercolor class I attended this morning. Tom Scott, a local artist from whom I have taken workshops before, taught it. I signed up at the last minute.
I really like how this painting turned out.
Mr. Scott is about 80 years old. He is a doll. So talented and still so excited about painting. He is the one who always says "Paint what you feel" and I tease him and tell him I want to sign up for the Feeling Class!
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Floral Fantasy: 18-03-2015
Floral Fantasy
watercolor on paper
18-03-2015
Not quite the fantasy I had in mind...
I have a bad habit of getting started on a painting and when it begins to look like nothing that I thought it would, then I just start slapping on the paint. I get very impatient.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Ocean Sunrise: 17-03-2015
Ocean Sunrise
watercolor on paper
17-03-2015
Another painting based on a collage from the book Handmade Paper Collage by Dawn Ackerman.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Desert Mountain Time: 16-03-2015
Desert Mountain Time
watercolor on paper
16-03-2015
Based on a paper collage. My mountains need more definition - crags and rough edges. This might have worked better if I had sketched in the layers of mountains first.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Reflections: 14-03-2015
Reflections
watercolor on paper
14-03-2015
Two attempts from Loosely Juicy watercolor class. Working with water and reflections.
Friday, March 13, 2015
A Little Landscape: 13-03-2015
A Little Landscape
watercolor on paper
13-03-2015
My version of a tutorial on YouTube. Looking back at the original, I see that, as usual, I filled up too much space and didn't leave any white. This is much more detailed. I will try again.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Monday, March 9, 2015
My Color Palette: 09-03-2015
My Color Palette
These are the M. Graham watercolors I have now. The Indigo is from Windsor-Newton and the Dioxazine Violet is Cotman (which is part of W-N I think). I cannot keep these colors in my head. Other artists reel off the names with nary a skipped beat.
These paints are a less expensive (actually free) bunch that I have accumulated. The first six are from an art set and the last two are from Dick Blick Art and came to me via a watercolor workshop a few years ago.
So there you have it. I am glad to get these organized. I will try not to buy any more colors for a while (although I do like the cerulean blue).
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Saturday, March 7, 2015
White Flower: 07-03-2015
White Flower
watercolor on paper
07-03-2015
This is a section of a larger painting done in Loosely and Juicy watercolor class. It is the section I like best. We are working larger than I am used to - this was done on a half-sheet.
Also went to an Art Fair & Expo at locally owned art supply store. Bought four more M. Graham colors (30 percent off!) and got a free one from the rep who was there. We had a long talk about M. Graham company which is outside of Portland, Oregon. It uses honey in the paint. I don't know if that is a good thing or not but I started with this brand and I am sticking with it.
I kind of like it going this way as well.
Friday, March 6, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Blue Skies: 04-03-2015
Blue Skies
watercolor on paper
04-03-2015
Playing with color. I love how the lighter blue (can't remember the name of it) and the darker Indigo melt together. A landscape and all I did was brush wet into wet and let the paint do the work.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Study in Gray: 03-03-2015
Study in Gray
watercolor and collage on paper
03-03-2015
This was supposed to be a progressive buildup of tone on tone. It didn't quite turn out like I envisioned so I added the red patches torn from another watercolor experiment. La-de-dah.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Striped Planet: 02-03-2015
Striped Planet
Version 1
watercolor on paper
02-03-2015
This original version seemed to need something so I added a cutout and got this (and the name):
Version 2
The round patch (striped planet) comes from some previous experimenting with colors and blending. I haven't glued it down yet. I just tossed it on there to see how it would look.
The texture of the background is made by smooshing a piece of Saran wrap on the wet paint and letting it dry. Gives it those canal-looking ridges.
I am going to try and alternate cool and warm colors for this challenge. Otherwise everything will end up being blue.
I may add some text - a quote or just a word - at a later date.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Flower Garden: 01-03-2015
Flower Garden
watercolor on paper
01-03-2015
New Challenge: An Abstract A Day
This one was made by dropping very wet watercolor globs on the paper (one color at a time) and blowing the color around with a straw. Neat effect. Then splattered with red. Wish the colors showed up better here. The paper is very white and makes for a lovely contrast. I think part of the problem is the light bulb - one of those energy savers...
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