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 - update 3

Still working on my latest peony watercolor painting. I am just starting to develop some of the more shadowed petals, this will give me a reference to compare all of the rest to. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I also finished a painting of a green crab for a calendar to raise money for an educational aquarium, I will post about it later on when I get a chance.

Happy Painting!!

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 :)

Tulips and Crystal Watercolor Painting WIP on Art Board - Finished!

Just finished this one this morning. It is amazing the color difference when you actually shoot in daylight :) the blue is still a little off, but that's on my monitor who knows lol I calibrate my monitor with software and hardware and it is still a mystery to me.
It is sunny here today I am hoping that the temperature gets high enough for me to varnish this one today.

Tulips and Crystal Watercolor Painting WIP on Art Board - Update 4

I am still working away on the vase, I think the tulips are just about right, I will continue to work on the crystal, one shape at a time, adding the same colors that I used for the tulips and background  :) I also started a 16x20 white peony today and it was so nice with the sunshine I got to varnish 4 watercolor paintings out on the deck, wow what a difference the varnish makes when using the board.

Tulips and Crystal Watercolor Painting WIP on Art Board - Update 3

Still continuing to develop the tulips and I have started to block in some of the color shapes of the crystal. I forgot how much I enjoy painting flowers, I am starting to paint for an upcoming show so I will be doing a lot more in the months to come. I have used the same colors for the pattern in the crystal as I have been using for the leaves and background. Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend :)

Tulips and Crystal Watercolor Painting WIP on Art Board - Update 2

I added the shadow from the vase and flowers with Cobalt + Perylene green and while it was wet I dropped in some winsor red. I worked more on the tulips and leaves.  I meant to post sooner but as you can see I got carried away. I did use a bit of new gamboge on some of the leaves and a few of the tulip petals to warm them up some.

Tulips and Crystal Watercolor Painting WIP on Art Board - Update 1

I worked some more on the leaves, glazing over the previously painted ones with hansa yellow. I started working on some of the the tulips (one petal at a time) with winsor red and winsor + cobalt for the shaded areas. I will probably put in the shadow from the vase next. Have a great night everyone, happy painting!

Tulips and Crystal Watercolor Painting Step by Step demo on Art Board

This is the tulips and crystal painting I started while working on my last still life with Pee Wee. This is also 16x20 and done on the watercolor board. I set this still life up with the help of my shadow box (yes I am addicted to it) in my studio. I started the background with some cobalt blue dulled down with a tiny bit of dark green, then I started to define a few of the leaves with hansa, sap and cobalt.

Pee Wee in a Still Life Watercolor Painting - Finished!

Here it is finally, all finished :) I finished this one the other day and i am also working on a still life with tulips and crystal. I will post some on the tulips hopefully tonight. Have a great night everyone! Thanks for looking and thanks for taking the time to comment

Pee Wee in a Still Life Watercolor Painting - Work in Progress Update 5

I am feeling like I can start to see the light with this painting lol. I am starting to work more on the glass bowl, everything else in the painting is just about done except for a few tweaks at the end. once I finish the glass bowl I will go back and see what needs to be tweaked and then I will be done. This Watercolor Still Life is on the Canson Art Board and is 16x20".

Pee Wee in a Still Life Watercolor Painting - Work in Progress Update 4

An update on the still Life Watercolor Painting with Pee Wee the Elephant. I worked some more on the fabric, I did not like how the fabric was hitting the left edge of the bowl creating a distraction from the bowl so I scrubbed it some making it go behind the bowl. I will go back in once it is good and dry with more paint to blend it in with the rest of the fabric. I started working a little on the bowl and some on the pear and Pee Wee. Hope everyone has a great night!

Pee Wee in a Still Life Watercolor Painting - Work in Progress Update 3

I added a layer of cobalt to the background and a layer of B. Sienna to Pee Wee. I have the mango almost finished, I just need to adjust the highlights and paint the stem. I have also started to build up the shadows on the pears and Pee Wee. Have a great weekend everyone and happy painting!

Pee Wee in a Still Life Watercolor Painting - Work in Progress Update 2

I worked more on the shadows, adding indigo and maroon. I also worked on the fruit more, glazing the orange with new gamboge and adding some permanent green to the pears. I like to get my darkest point in early as I used it as a reference point for my other colors and values.

Pee Wee in a Still Life Watercolor Painting - Work in Progress Update 1

Started to add more color to the fabric and fruits. I masked out some small highlights on the orange and the mango.

Pee Wee in a Still Life Watercolor Painting - Work in Progress

This is my latest watercolor painting I am working on, again I am using the Canson art board. It is 16x20" and I started off just blocking in the fabric with cobalt blue and a layer of B. Sienna on the shadows. I used Lemon yellow on the fruit. I picked this fruit bowl up at a local thrift shop. I have a whole shelf in my closet full of things I pick up to someday paint :)

Pee Wee the Elephant - Watercolor Painting Finished!

I also finished Pee Wee this morning, he is 8x8`` and is also done on the Canson Artboard, each painting I do on the board gets easier , it was a little tricky at first but it actually works well with the way I paint. Pee Wee is starring in my next painting also, it is a still life with some fruit, a bowl and of course Pee Wee, I will post some picture after.  i think the thing I like about Pee Wee is his texture, he is solid brass and very old and corroded, it is this rusted marred surface that drew me to him.