Star Of The Show

Happy Friday
   This is the first painting I finished from attending a
Carolyn Gawarecki  workshop on Shadows in Paintings.

I learned a lot attending it and found her to be an amazing and interesting teacher and well as person.
For this painting we wet it completely then stapled it to gatorboard, after it dried I applied masking fluid  over all the area not to be shadowed. I then dropped in the shadows on very wet paper and let the colors mix together.  After the shadows dried I removed the masking and worked from there. 
Thank you Carolyn for such a well done workshop.   Let me know what you think and thanks everyone for stopping in.

Pale Pink Rose

Happy Thursday

I took another break from painting oils and did another rose in watercolor.   There is a certain pink that I see people use for painting roses.  However as hard as I try I can never seem to get this color down.  I used a photo of  Laura's Rose from Pilan ( Wet Canvas), thank you so much Pilan for this.  I used Scarlet Lake and a little Permanent Rose for the flower, but still not the pink I wanted.  However I do like the color and it doesn't go toward a rose or violet color which mine usally go to.  I started very light and worked up the color with many different layers.  I hope you like this rose as much as I did painting it.   Please stop in and let me know what you think.  I really appreciate everyone who looks and comments on this.    

A Rose For Friday

Good morning everyone.  I haven't posted lately and thought this is a good day to show my latest rose painting.  This is taken from one of my rose photos that I have.  I wish I could paint it in real life but not til April.  I used the same colors that I painted in the rose for the background.  Please enjoy this and remember thank you for viewing and your comments.

My Lily

  Happy New Year


I decided to hold this painting so that I could begin 2011 with this watercolor of my cat,  Lily.  This is from one of my photos of her laying in the light. Which by the way is one of her favorite things to do.  I have been meaning to paint this for a while since I love the play of shadow on her body and the floor.  I hope it brings joy this day to all of you.  And thankyou all for your support and comments through out the year.  I really appreciate all your feed back.