White Peony Watercolor Painting - Update 5

I am still working on my peony, not as often as I would like. It is still not close to being done, hopefully I will be able to give it more of my attention. I have also been busy experimenting with acrylic and paper, also mounting and varnishing watercolor and acrylic used as watercolor. I will post some of my pieces hopefully tomorrow when I get a chance. I am also busy painting for a solo show in the spring of 2012. Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog I appreciate it, I also welcome comments and suggestions. Have a great night everyone

White Peony Watercolor Painting - update 4

It is slow going with the peony, I have to work on other things as well so I started an oil landscape and I also stretched some watercolor paper onto stretcher bars and I am doing a watercolor on that as well. This peony is 16x20 as well as the oil. the watercolor stretched is only 8x10. I did not want to get into anything big trying something new. I will post pictures of the others as soon as I get caught up. Happy Painting and have an awesome weekend everyone!

White Peony Watercolor Painting - WIP Update 2

I am working away on the shadowed parts of the petals, this is going to be a long one lol, I think I will start another painting so I have something to work on as this one is drying.

White Peony Watercolor Painting - WIP Update 1

I mainly worked on the background making it darker, I also started a couple of the petals.

White Peony Watercolor Painting - Work in Progress WIP

This is the latest watercolor painting I am working on, it  is a White Peony 16x20" on 200lb CP  paper. I have started working on the background, I will add a couple more layers before moving to the petals of the peony. These peonies grows in my neighbors garden and they are so beautiful, I can sometimes be found early in the morning in my pjs sneaking through their yard taking pictures, with permission of course (for the pictures not the pj's lol ) Sometimes the light is just perfect and I know if I take the time to get dressed I will miss it. Thank goodness nobody else is up this early on my street :)

Sneak Peak at my Show!

Here I am just after my husband and I set up the show, my hair is a mess and I am exhausted, it was quite a bit more work than i thought it would be. Thank goodness for husbands :)

It is hard to see some of these because of the reflections on the glass from the windows.

It looks much more impressive in real life, but I thought it might be nice to post these for all of my friends who are too far away to come to the show.

The show will officially open on May 21st 2010 and will hang until July 30th 2010. A reception will take place June 6th 2 -4 PM. at the Art Gallery at Kingsbrae Garden in St. Andrews NB. The garden is unbelievable, for any of you who do not live in our area and you get a chance to come this way it is a must see! click here for directions http://www.kingsbraegarden.com/

I am sad to say that one of my favourite little Pygmy goats Dusty is no longer with us :(

go to link below to see the portrait I painted of him for the show:

http://whatskristapaintingnow.blogspot.com/2009/09/dusty-goat-is-finished.html

Pink Peony Bud Watercolor Painting Finished!

Just finished this today. The lighting is a little off still (waiting for some sunshine). I will look at it a bit before I have it framed just to make sure :)

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

Pink Peony Bud Watercolor Painting I am Working On- Update 1

I have added many layers since I last posted this the last time, I am on the home stretch to having this done. I did not have great lighting when this was taken, the background is not as black as it looks.

Pink Peony Bud Watercolor Painting I started Last Night

I started this one last night as the others were drying. I will also post the Rose I started last night.

WIP White Peony Finished!

Finished my peony today now I can get my fish and sticks project done up. It is really amzing at how many colors you can see when you really look at something white. Did the majority of the shadows with perm rose, Ultra blue and some Indigo.

Watercolor 11x14

WIP White Peony Update 3

Did some more glazing of the background (windsor green + Quin Red) started filling in the leaves with the same plus some ultra blue. Just starting to define some of the petals.

Just Starting to Bloom! Peony WIP Complete

Finished this just a few minutes ago, now its back to the drawing board lol. I wonder what will inspire me tomorrow. Hope everyone has a great night!
Thanks for looking,
Krista

Watercolor 8x10

WIP Peony update 4

Getting closer, layering over the darker areas to get the depth, also adding some violets.
I am absolutely in love with peonies, they are so beautiful can't wait to get his one done!

WIP Peony update 3

I glazed over the background again and then lifted out the highlights on the leaves. This is the point where I like to have my darkest darks done, I find it makes it easier to get the rest of the values right. I have introduced Caput Mortum into my mixes with my roses and reds.
I paint each petal separately so i can graduate the values giving it more depth.

WIP Peony update 2

Put another layer on the background (bamboo green, ultramarine and a little lemon yellow)
Started putting in the darkest spots on flower, Quin red for darker on petals and some ultra and quin red for inner dark spaces. This is all I will do tonight (unless i wake up at 1am again).
See you all tomorrow, have a great night!