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Halloween Card

August 29th, 2012

Halloween Card

Watercolor Halloween Card... Witches Dance with Cats
Raw sienna, black, Burnt Sienna, touch of Madder Lake Red, Russian Green background mist...
Yarka Watercolors on Fluid watercolor paper

Yet another pirate card

August 29th, 2012

Yet another pirate card

The Jolly Roger

Playing with Cards

August 29th, 2012

Playing with  Cards

The Island will be overrun with pirates at the Annual Tybee Island Pirate Festival the first part of October
Created a card for the occasion

Singing Bird in Sycamore Tree watercolor

August 29th, 2012

Singing Bird in Sycamore Tree watercolor

Little bird was singing his heart out in a Sycamore Tree at the Library.
Painted with Yarka Original Watercolor Set while experimenting with 9x12 Fluid Watercolor Block.
Inexpensive paper with a nice feeling. Lots of umbers, cadimuns, russian green and Siennas.
Dropped in faint background of Prussian Blue with a touch of cadimum and burnt Sienna

WatercolorJOY

August 14th, 2012

WatercolorJOY

Finished Watercolor Sycamore Leaf with sycamore balls.
A Gift from nature in all her fall splendor! Thank you beautiful leaf!

WatercolorJOY Sycamore Leaf continues

August 12th, 2012

WatercolorJOY  Sycamore Leaf continues

Laying in the beautiful reds, greens and yellows and positioning the found twig and sycamore balls

Sycamore Tree Gift of beautiful leaf

August 12th, 2012

Sycamore Tree Gift of beautiful leaf

Study of beautiful Sycamore Leaf which fell during high winds. Colorful reds, greens and yellows!
Watercolor to follow with added found Sycamore balls

Gulls gotta FLY

August 12th, 2012

Gulls gotta FLY

WatercolorJOY!

Found this beautiful seagull on the railing at River Street, Savannah, GA.
He/She was camera sky, promptly started to fly when I pointed my camera.
Watching from high above, and mingling with earthlings below, these beautiful birds seem almost all-knowing.
This one was lovingly painted with umbers, colbalt, cadmiums and love.
The background of prussian blue and yellows was added last (after the bird was dry, so that it didn't bleed, althought
that might have been interesting!)

Tybee Blue Crab in WATERcolor

August 12th, 2012

Tybee Blue Crab in WATERcolor

WatercolorJoy!
Flora, Fauna, Shells, Feathers, Leaves, Sticks and Nature's treasured, sometimes overlooked Gifts.

This is the little blue crab that got away. Wonderful to paint in his beautiful array of ultra marine blues,
reds and yellows. Tideous because he has eight legs and very little space to place them.
Drawn partly from reference, partly from memory (when I used to eat them, YUK!) and mainly from imagination.
Sketch crab, transfer it to arches watercolor paper, paint the main body of the crab, add claws and legs and lastly
a faint, delicate background of russian blue and lemon yellow for variety. He's done! (not in the pot, but on paper) Enjoy!

Playing with watercolors. Whoops

July 30th, 2011

Playing with watercolors. Whoops

Watercolors more or less paint themselves. It's a good thing. Never know where they are going.
That's the charm.

Pineapple

July 27th, 2011

Pineapple

Startng to work on still life images.
Finished watercolor Pineapple just before it became fully ripe. Almost felt quilty munching on such a
beautiful fruit that I got to know so well. Thank you Pineapple!