More flowers and creating a daily practice

Since I took the Explore Florals class with Victoria Johnson, I have been painting almost every day. (If I miss a day, I'll do two or three paintings the next day). I have been working with gouache, which is a wonderful medium. I'm using Holbein and Windsor and Newton paints and the colors are luscious and vibrant. Most of these paintings are still of flowers but I intend to start painting people and objects as we head in to Fall. I am having a blast!

Global Talent Search - Thinking about terrariums

I turned in my entry for Lilla Rogers Global Talent Search last night...I had a hard time deciding between two of the paintings I had done...We had two weeks to work on it and I did about five paintings. Here are parts from the one I didn't submit. I'll show the one I entered on August 26.

It was a fun project. I had a blast painting...I used mostly gouache and watercolor with some pen and ink thrown in.

New Season, new beginnings

It's beginning to feel a little like fall here, though the days have been gloriously sunny. We had a beautiful blue moon over the weekend and I am accepting that summer is over. There are some other changes happening in my life...letting some things go, to allow space for new things to come in.

Wet Stones 

I got out the watercolor crayons I took with me to Penland and spent half an hour in the morning at my kitchen table drawing. I'm pleased with the results. I wet the paper first with a watercolor brush, then started drawing shapes...love how the color feathers out on the wet paper. The paper is Rives BFK which deliciously takes color and ink. I plan to do more of this.

Sketchbook Challenge

Telephone

Here is today's sketch/painting...an old telephone (actually new, it's a reproduction).

Sketchbook project for August

It's a new month and time to get painting and drawing. I'm following along with Jill Berry on her Sketchbook Challenge http://sketchbookchallenge.blogspot.com/. The challenge is to paint every day things that are around your house. I did something like this a few years ago with great results.

I've been doing a few watercolors this summer but mostly sewing, felting and needlepointing so far this summer. I'm itching to get my paints out and this is a good challenge for that. Won't you come along too?

Summer Girl with Freckles - Watercolor painting

This is one of the new paintings I've done recently, inspired by summer and the beach.

One Month of Art

I've been doing a new piece of art everyday and will continue for 30 days. Today is number 15. Here are a few of the pieces I've done so far.