Back Lot Blue Beauty

This painting was completed some time ago for a class I was teaching. I submitted it this week to the April project for Watercolor Workshop theme "We've Got the Blues". It is painted on 1/2 sheet Arches cold-pressed watercolor paper with mostly Holbein paints. I limited the palette to Antwerp Blue, Quin. rose, paynes gray with some quin. gold. I did this same subject in green for a class also.

Well - this is the flower painting for week two of my 6 week watercolor course at the Riverside Art Center. The students will have the option to do the entire painting or they may zero in on one cluster and paint that with leaves. The original if 9"x12" and is painted on 140 lb. Arches cold-pressed watercolor paper. My students range from intermediate to advanced skill levels. It is so much fun to teach painters who really want to be "there." I love teaching adults. I also love teaching "kids," but that is a whole different ballgame. :)

I prepared this painting for the Monday night class I am teaching at the Riverside Arts Center. It is 10"x7" and was painted on 140 lb. Arches cold-pressed watercolor paper with mostly Holbein watercolors. The class started this Monday evening and will go for 6 weeks.

Well, this is the last of the chips I prepared with the bubble textures. This one is 5"x5" and is painted on 140 lb. Arches cold-pressed paper. I mixed some white gouache with my orange paint to increase the intensity. In the future, I believe I will preserve my whites ahead of time with mask before I print the bubble textures on the paper. Since the bubbles are made with acrylic fluid paints, the color cannot be lifted as in watercolor. One of these days I will get brave and do a large painting...probably koi again.

Foggy Morning Mist

The April theme for the Aquanet watercolor site is "Fog and Rain" so I decided to depict a memory from time spent in the northwoods of Wisconsin. I tried to paint a very wet, soggy drizzly morning. It is 9"x4" and is painted on Arches 140 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper with mostly Holbein watercolors.

Troop 20575 St. Mary's, Ohio

These are sme pictures of the girls in Troop #20575 from St. Mary's, Ohio. They were attending the Watercolor Badge workshop I was holding at Arts Place in St. Mary's. There were 9 scouts taking part in the workshop. We discussed the basics of watercolor, washes, etc. In these pictures they were working on wet-in-wet techniques. They did very well and I hope they had a lot of fun.

I did two primary wet-in-wet mixtures at the Girl Scout badge workshop - this is the second painting I worked up from the demo background paintings. This is a more traditional approach - tight on top of loose background.

I did a watercolor workshop for the girlscouts Monday evening. There were 9 of them, 5th graders, and they were all working on their watercolor badges. We did some wet-in-wet backgrounds using the 3 primary colors. This painting was one of my mixtures with salt texture and I decided to make a flower out of it. The girls were amazed at the mixtures you could get by tipping their boards one way and the other.