Fuschia

Fuschia
An 8 x 10 watercolor painting. While visiting Janka Blooms, a local greenhouse, I took photos of some of the lovely flowers that were available for purchase. This is one of my favorite flowers and I can not keep them growing. This one was huge and the only coral and white that they had. Lucky for me one of my friends purchased it and I can get more photos if I am inspired to paint a larger painting. I think a 22 x 30 might be lurking, waiting to be paintied.

On the Beach

An 8 x 10 watercolor. Water has often escaped my technical abilities. Of course in a small painting, I did not have room for a lot of detail. I am happy with this one, but may, as an artist friend suggested, darken the shadow more.

Hollyhocks

An 8 x 10 watercolor of hollyhocks. I love the glow and the colors.

Tally Me Banana

"Tally Me Banana" is 14 x 20. The drum is a handmade drum that is often used when playing calypso music. The man is from a photo on Wet Canvas. The banana backgund is from my photo. Lot of variety in the greens. I suceeded in creating depth.

Painting with grandkids

This has been my distraction from watercolor for the past couple of weeks. I am painting with my grandkids on their bathroom walls. We are not finished yet, but what a lot of fun. The giraffe will be coming up from behind the toilet. The plan is to have the tree with the parrot go up over the window with more leaves, a butterfly and small bird. I think this will be a project they will remember for a long time. Both of them are good artists for their age. They are 6 and 9.

Coconut Tree Finished

I finally have this finished. It is 22 x 30, watercolor on Arches 140# CP paper. I had a few distractions during the past couple of weeks. I have been painting, but on walls. I also have another of the Tropical series started. I have been working on skin tones. I have not painted many people in my paintings. Since visiting Myrna Wacknov's blog, I have been inspired to give this a try. So far, I have thrown away 6 starts, trying to get a skin tone I like. I think I finally have it. I will post that one later. Please feel free to comment on this painting. It was one of the most difficult I have done in a while.

Coconut Tree WIP5

I finally got around to working some on this. It is just about finished. I still need to glaze in some daarks and some more shadows.

Coconut Tree WIP 4

Stopping for a while to figure out what I need to texturize that big brown spot with. I am not usually a gimmick user, but I have thought about cheese cloth. I am going to think about it for a bit, before I decide.

Coconut Tree WIP 3

Slowly progressing on this painting. I was a little unhappy with it until I took the photo and saw it on the computer screen. This happens to me quite often. My husband says I always say I don't like this. But I then figure well, what do I have to lose...if I don't like it now, then just keep going and if it ends in the throw away pile, what have I lost. Usually they are OK when I get finished. I think this happens to most artists. We have a vision in our head of how we think it will look and often the brush has a mind of it's own. I often ask, now why did I do that? I paint instinctfully. By this I mean I just pick a color and put it here or there, without a lot of thinking about it. This usually works for me. I changed the colors on my palette for this painting. The colors I am using are all transparent or semi transparent. All my browns and are mixed.