Framed Watercolor - Sailing At Dusk

 

Here  is  Sailing At Dusk, a watercolor, framed and now living in friend Carol's home. It is such a delight to see my art  framed,  appreciated and living with someone else!

Duke of York

 

Here is my friend, Jean's dog, Duke, the Yorkshire terrier. He is a spunky, happy little fellow. This is a pastel on gatorboard that has been primed with a lightly sanded medium. Dogs have so much personality and it is fun to capture their spunk!

Collage - Sunset Over The Water

 

Here is another collage, Sunset Over The Water,  but I prefer Autumn Trees over this one. Collage is messy, abstract, rather slow as you wait for layers to dry. Not all that appealing to me but it is a great way to learn the principles of design which is what our teacher, Kathy  Summers, is working on with this collage experience.

Collage - Autumn Trees

 I prefer this collage of the two I have done and posted.  Layers of handmade paper with lots of texture in it and tissue paper of various colors. The base for both of these collages is a heavy piece of art board. Thinned Elmer's white glue is used to tack down the various papers. There are some watercolor accent spots over the papers. I am going to work more texture into the tree trunks and some more grassy accents as well. I will post the finished work later.

Texas Hillcountry at Sunset

This watercolor is from a  picture of the hill  country at sunset and I tried to capture the brilliant color of the wildflowers and sunset then the dark shadowed appearance of the tree and background foliage. This was painted on cold press Fabriano paper.

Agave Cactus on Yupo

 Yupo is a unique surface for watercolor. Yupo is a synthetic paper that is imported from Japan. It feels like a piece of plastic, it doesn't absorb the colors but they sit on top of the surface so it puddles and makes some really interesting textures. You do need to use a  stronger saturation of color, which I didn't do on this painting but "try,try again!"

First & Completed Pottery Still Life

 

Here is the completed watercolor of the pottery still life with dried chilies.

Carol Smith's wonderful drawing of her husband, Rev Jack Smith

HOORAY!!! Blogger's problems are resolved! So here I am back with more pictures.

Here is a wonderful pencil drawing by my friend and fellow artist, Carol Smith.
Carol's  previously shown clay sculpture of John Calvin is at a foundry in Bastrop being readied for casting in bronze! I  can't wait to see  it!