Rose of Sharon # 1

Happy Saturday

  When I lived up in Pennsylvania I had a lot of these bushes all over the property.  The flowers came in a various shades of rose and violet with some white. Before we moved down here I went out and took a lot of photos of the different color flowers. I thought I would like to start a series of painting them. I finally decided to get started.  I picked the white one as my first since these were my favorite. I used various shades of blues and rose in the petals and then wet in wet for the bg.  It is painted on  1/4 sheet of Arches 140 CP .  Thanks everyone for viewing. Please leave comments, love to read them.    

Bring in the CLouds

This is the latest oil I did for my Painting class.  It shows beautiful clouds rolling over the marshlands. I loved doing this painting and it took me over 3 weeks to finally say enough and it is finished.  One of the largest paintings I have done in quite a while. The size is 18"by 24" on canvas gallery wrap.  Please enjoy our marshes as much as I do.   Thankyou for viewing. 

Small Pitcher

Hi Everyone  
    The last couple of weeks have been very busy for me and honestly I haven't painted.   I did this little watercolor last week and only got around to posting it today.   Violets are one of my favorite flowers and I can't wait til spring so I can pick them to paint.  I have this little pitcher with violets painted on it. So I set up a little still life of the violets in the pitcher on one of my lace doilies that I own.  Please enjoy and I hope as usual this brings a little pleasure to your day.    

Lauren

My Painting Friend Cindi and myself challenged ourselves to do a portrait in watercolor working vertically.  We chose this beautiful photo of a little girl named Lauren,with permission from a friend in another forum, Thank you Deb S. we proceeded.  I think I could of pushed her face back a little with more darks but overall very happy with the outcome.  Please enjoy this delightful child and hope to hear comments.

 Thanks again for looking