Tag Archive for: still life

Day 13 of 30 in 30

Today's color is RED! Wow, I haven't spent this long on a painting in a long time... But this one took forever.I had more objects, yes, but I need to learn how to paint faster, go the color right the first time so I keep it fresh and fast... But…

Day 12 of 30 in 30

Wow! What an eventful day...Got started on a new series of paintings... And fixed some bugs on our software that me my my husband create and some problems on our business website, exercised, cleaned the kitchen/living area. We are taking care…

Lacy Days

I started this as an exercise in my watercolor class last week as my students wanterd to learn how to paint lace (and crystal.)Painted a little bit in the class for the demo and fell in love with painting lace. After the class was over, I ended…

Colander with Apples

This is done from the step-by-step shown by the wonderful and generous French watercolorist Thierry, who gave the permission to paint and sell it!Thanks Thierry! Colander with Apples 12" x 16"Watercolor

Grapes – Finished

Cheese Please!17.5 x 23 inches (I think my largest so far!) :DArches 140# CP papermostly Winsor & Newton paintsMany thanks to "Emily Lagore" (mustcreate of wetcanvas) for her beautiful reference!I have been a member of our local co-op gallery…

Grapes – WIP (8)

I think I am done with the grapes and the bowl. Now just have to do a shadow underneath the bowl and a BG.

Grapes – WIP (7)

Another glaze on the bowl. I still need to go darker on the bowl to make it sparkle!

Grapes – WIP (6)

After one glaze on the crystal bowl.

Grapes – WIP (5)

Phew....I have painted all day long today (and my back is telling me that!)The big part of the painting, the grapes are "done."Hmm... I might go back to darken a couple pf them...I will see about that in end and see how everything looksand…

Grapes – WIP (4)

Some more reds........ A combination of ultramarine blue, pyrelene maroon, alizarin crimson, scarlet lake, ans maybe a touch here or there of sap green, tranparent pyrrol orange....