Create your own Peace: With color, cobalt teal blue pg50 and using softer, delicate edges as you paint. Gorgeous minty frosty greens, so relaxing, you’ll love it!
A very simple watercolor landscape. No bells or whistles. Just two paints. Indigo for a cool, dark. Raw Umber for the warmer, lighter color. Impressionist Watercolor Landscape My processes Color Selection. I decided to paint using a very reduced palette to help with unifying the image. I needed […]
I love this photograph of a pelican my daughter took while at the Perth zoo. It almost looked like an eagle’s wing, at first. Massive and beautiful. The wing, filled with black and white feathers joined together. Imagine……. The day wasn’t bright nor shining. No. More the kind that haunts in […]
Nothing but Fun today. And, Look at those shapes and textures! The subject in mind – the beach, sun and sand, waves and water. Absolutely Abstract. Abstractions Cool and inviting, Cobalt Teal Blue beguiles, again. Cobalt Teal Blue pg50 is an Opaque category pigment. Its not translucent or one of the […]
Warm it up, cool it down! Soften edges and make it darker…. Great tips for beginner watercolorists.
The world of the artist is filled with imagination. The kind of imagination children still have, even at age eleven. Somewhere along the way, that creative expression, stops. The imagination gets shoved away, packed up, boxed up tight. Then hauled up into the attic. Its expected. But, if I […]
The canvas of sky and sea, spectacular! Dark Storms thundering across the sky with waves beaten white….
Serenity…. when you realise that sometime later, you WILL have the painting skills to showcase your art to full potential. It may not be today, but it will happen.
Magnolia blooms in watercolor. Fresh and free. Suggesting, giving the impression, of being wild – growing on the tree branches. Watercolor Magnolias – revisited This is an older watercolor painting of magnolias and leaves that I felt wasn’t quite right. It needed some ‘adjustments.’ Years ago I’d gathered my flower blossoms […]
All my tree lovelies, together. A collection of moody, Impressionist Watercolor Landscapes. Some are ‘busy’ while others have been pared down to the bare bones. Each, with their own tale to tell. Watercolor Trees Fir trees, Poplar trees, maple trees, gum trees and … trees of unknown species. They’re all here. […]