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.

SPRING IS BURSTING WITH COLOR!

Waterloo Watercolor Group has a spring member's show from

May 4 - July 6, 2015 

at the Corridor of Art

Lower Level

700 Lavaca

Downtown Austin

My watercolor Bundle of Sunflowers will be shown in this spring show.

Please drop in to see this fantastic showing of watercolors.

Hydrangeas in Bloom

This watercolor of a bowl of hydrangeas was done on Arches paper using a background technique of wet on wet tissue paper with paint to get some interesting texture.

Happy 20th Anniversary!

Friends celebrated their 20th anniversary in Maui last summer. I did this watercolor from a photograph that they shared on their Christmas card this year and gifted the painting to them as a remembrance of their anniversary and special trip. Beautiful colors in the water, sky and mountains. Done on Arches watercolor block paper.