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Monday, April 6, 2015

Parrots


These two paintings with color palettes of only 3 basic colors were fun to do...very different atmosphere to the two paintings.

Hard & Soft Edges...

These 2 little paintings I did with hard then soft edges. Nice contrast in mood and atmosphere in each painting.


Birdhouses - Warm & Cool



These birdhouses are painted on Arches 140# paper in warm & cool colors - changes the character of the paintings. I used salt on the background of the warm palette to establish some interesting texture.

Doors and Windows


These small watercolor paintings are from the one-day workshop that I took in March with Lake Travis artist Rae Andrews. We focused on free form paintings in the top painting and drew in subject in the bottom painting as well as using graphite to establish dark areas before painting. Neither painting is especially successful but I did learn a lot in the workshop and I need all the help I can get in "loosening" up my style - it helped! Rae encouraged us to leave lots of whites in our paintings and use more of a vignette style of design.