little face 1

a little girl 

night job

orchid in the dark

looking at the harbour - in 2 sizes

Hopetown Harbour

7x10

Mini Hopetown

2.5 x 3.5

fall flowers

 Poppy

 Sunflower

6x6 

wrapped canvas 

ready to hang

Sunflower

7 x 10 

Gorgeous fall day and I found pansies and a dahlia blooming in the yard -

not ready to give up

yet! 

Peaking

Twin Peaks

Snow on paper

my favorite weather

White Iris

Iris

it was time to give this painting a little more definition and a little depth

Winter Quiet

Winter Quiet

Created in response to the DPW Challenge 

I chose to change the season to get a better view of the mill.

Watercolor on lanaquarelle rough paper this painting measures 7 x 10 inches.

When we hit 90 degrees - looking at this is chilling!  

Orchid U Not

The sun is shining somewhere...

Challenged

Watercolors WNW has a monthly challenge...this month was a size and time limit but the subject was up to the artist.

I have stopped watching the clock...don't need to. All the appliances ding when I need to attend them so I usually get wrapped up in whatever I'm doing and just jump with the dings.

Painting Three Tulips was quite different. I timed every step to be sure I didn't exceed the time allotted. Marked it all down on scrap paper and made sure I didn't just take off with a ding and forget to write in my time.

Made it! (with time to spare but don't tell on me!)

Primroses ?

I'm not so sure.
They look pretty fu fu to me!
I was stunned by the flower volume and variety on just one plant.
Just wait, there's another on my table with yellow and peach flowers all fluffy and whirly petaled like this.
What fun!

What is this?

I took the picture and painted this flower but haven't a clue what it is. If you know, please leave a comment.

I'd be forever grateful.

It's not moving! Must be a still life...

WHITE SHINE
The February Challenge in our Watercolor group was fraught with opportunity - or - loaded with potential for personal growth. Lots of lovely choices but nevertheless, you had to paint a still life.

How hard can it be? Smack a pear and some flowers on a table, drape a tablecloth behind and paint away.

Several artists posted photos of still life set ups and I truly loved the clean look of one photo. It was pretty much white and red with a clear little vase. With watercolor, the white is the paper. How Sweet it that? Sign me up!

So I did a little outline drawing of the vase and flowers on my watercolor paper. It's my usual routine. Just outline the shape and confirm placement, then paint.
Not so much.

I started mapping the whites, marking subtle color changes in the vase and then marking the highlights and reflections in the shadows.

Then I took my dip pen and frisket out and spent a great deal of time applying little blobs and lines to preserve the whites.

For a mostly "white" watercolor, there were tons of pencil marks. Painting didn't take too long but then I felt the need to remove the pencil marks. I used my trusty plastic eraser and was successful getting the annoying marks removed. Some of the color changed/lightened so I did a little more painting.

This is where I ended up.

I want to Thank Lori Andrews for sharing the photo that helped me to create WHITE SHINE