I decided that I couldn’t wait any longer, so I sat down and had some fun with watercolor! Funny how life keeps getting in the way these days. So, my new personal goal is to get something done daily and not worry about it. This is a quick watercolor (4 X 6) done in my sketchbook of a very small amount of the monster Morning glory taking over my back yard. My efforts at controlling it’s goal of world domination have been insufficient in this heat. I’m expecting to hear from the City of Lakewood about possible lost animals soon!
Category: Watercolor
Pink Flowers
My motto: when in doubt, paint flowers. I have some ideas I’m working on, but I find that if I go too long planning something, it’s like I’ve actually done the artwork. So, while those ideas are tumbling around in my head, I thought I’d throw in a watercolor of flowers. I don’t know what kind they are. I saw something like this group and did a small sketch some time ago. I painted them in my 6 X 8 sketchbook with Prang watercolors. I’ll try to remember to show the steps next time. I think it’s been awhile since I’ve done that.
Tags: Color, Flowers, Sketches, Watercolor
Spring Art Show
Yes! A blue ribbon from my first Art Show entry and an Honorable Mention! The show was sponsored by the Lakewood Artist Guild. Through the years I have entered many quilt shows and have several ribbons, but this was a total surprise for my first Art Show. Judging was done by a professional artist (not somone affiliated with the Art Guild and both entries were in a category called “Other/Mixed Media” Other categories were the standard Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Photography, and Digitally Enhanced Photography. Pastels, Drawings and Mixed Media were judged in this catchall category because they want a leas 7 entries in any specific category. The blue ribbon is for the Ink and Wash Drawing call “Le Chat” and the Honerable Mention for the pastel landscape called “Utah Snow”.
Here are the other two pastels that I entered…..50% ain’t so bad, is it? AND the $50 cash prize helped pay for materials. I was on cloud nine for a long, long time!
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Poppies- A Process Study
Just a quick flair drawing with water brushed on. Size 7 X 5
I decided to paint the poppies, later the same week… Size 6 X 9.
Tags: black & white, Color, Flowers, garden, pen & ink, poppies, process study, Sketches
Nasturtiums
Another quick watercolor of a spring flower. This was one of our many yellow/orange nasturtiums last year. Size 5 X 7.
Tags: Flowers, garden, nasturtiums, Sketches, Watercolor
