Watercolor Art from the Archives

In case you didn’t know me by now, Tulips are my favorite flower.
I love their combination of simplicity + elegance and want to be just like one when I grow up.
What? I can’t be a flower?
What? I am already “grown up”?
Pooh!
This watercolor was learning to paint on gesso.  We painted the gesso on the [...]

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Art from the Archives

Once upon a time, I fell in love with this book.
The Art of Illumination, Patricia Carter.
Only it was kind of spend-y, so I admired it from afar. (Back in the day, it cost me $30, which in the early 90’s was a little bundle.)
I  couldn’t stop thinking about it. (Thus the nature of love.)  [...]

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Art from the Archives

Look what I dug up the other day!
Wow, its amazing to see stuff I did twenty-some years ago.   I abandoned this watercolor because I couldn’t make the girl come out right.
I am not so good with the human figure.  Once, I drew just a face, in my Study of the Masters class, and [...]

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Art from the Archives

In order to help moderate the ATC’s on Ravelry group, I have been digging up my past artwork and photographing it.  Hopefully, it will help to illustrate various techniques using various mediums.
Its been a nice trip back in the Way-Back-Machine to see my artwork again…after being tucked away for years.
This one is a [...]

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Art from the Archives

Here is something I painted many moons ago when I took a Watercolor Class on how to create textural effects.
This one, when done, reminded me of choppy water, so that is how I painted it.
The painting itself is not meant to be terrific, I was just learning how to create the effect.
Although it is kinda [...]

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