I put together a new palette of gouache paints yesterday and played around with them today, testing some mixes and painted this from a photo taken in the high pass between Haines and Whitehorse.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
JANUARY 14, 2011
Outside my window again, today about 3 pm. As you see, the snow is gone. It has been clear and bitterly cold outside. I'm lucky to have such a beautiful site out my studio window.This one is done on a cream colored watercolor paper. I used a little gouache on the spruce.
JANUARY 13, 2011
I brought these out of the cold room this morning. They seemed to be getting greener as I painted them.
JANUARY 12, 2011
This is the other woodcut I've been working on for over a week and finished today. I'll write more about it on my other blog.
JANUARY 11,2011
About 3 pm these days the light in the trees out my window is fascinating. I've painted the view many times, never very satisfactorily. Here's another attempt, this time with gouache on a brown paper.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
JANUARY 10, 2011
I've spent the last 2 days printing about 75 Year of the Rabbit woodblock prints. They are done with watercolor, so I'm going to let this be my posting for today. These are for a Baren Forum exchange. This is the 10th year I've participated in the exchange. This year I've done them on time and have enough to send to friends as well as the other participants.
JANUARY 9, 2011
Yahoo! I"m off to a good start here as I've succeeded in painting a little something every day for 9 days. As I've got lots and lots of little paintings from years before I started this blog I'm going to take a day off once a week and put one of these old ones. This one's from 1996.
JANUARY 5, 2011
The nuts along with oranges and lemons came in the mail... a nice surprise from out neighbors visiting California.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
JANUARY 4, 2011
Working at the library this afternoon. I did the sketch with my fountain pen with water soluble ink and painted with water to make the ink run.
Monday, January 3, 2011
JANUARY 3, 2011
I painted this very quickly, couldn't find my hair dryer so things flowed together. I am planning a woodcut after it.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
JANUARY 2, 2011
This is one of several watercolor palettes I use. I have way too many colors on this one.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
1/1/11
Happy New Year! I'm starting 2011 off with a resolve to put a little painting here everyday. So here's the first one.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
A SKETCH FROM 1999
I've been going through some old sketch books and since I'm not doing much sketching these days, I decided to put some older ones here. This was done in May of 1999 in Weird Bay in Glacier Bay on a kayak camping trip. We had to dig out space in the snow to put our tent above the tide line.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
DON'S FIELD
I dug this little painting out a few days ago; it took a while to find it.
Written on the bottom: "With JoAnn and John on edge of Don's field of lupine June 29, 1999-a day of sunshine and showers"
watercolor 3 1/2 x 5
I sent this to John who is undergoing chemo in California now . I hope it brings back good memories of that beautiful day as it does to me
Written on the bottom: "With JoAnn and John on edge of Don's field of lupine June 29, 1999-a day of sunshine and showers"
watercolor 3 1/2 x 5
I sent this to John who is undergoing chemo in California now . I hope it brings back good memories of that beautiful day as it does to me
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
MORE FALL COLOR
4x6 watercolor
Aimee's guest house. We lived in this little cottage our first winter here while we built our house. Its has been greatly improved since then. I did this the week before last before the rain started.
4x6 watercolor
A view outside my new studio window on Monday.... last month Van replaced the old window which had gotten foggy between the thermal panes.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
A WEEK OF WATERCOLOR POSTCARDS
Last week with unusually beautiful sunny weather for this time of year, and after a long time passing where I've hardly touched a paint brush, I went out walking in the neighborhood with my painting kit and did these. They are all 4x6 inches watercolors.
View across the Salmon River from the Smokehouse porch,
another view from the Smokehouse porch,
the Salmon River bridge... I had drawn this in pencil in 2006, forgotten and found in a pile of paper. It took me a while to find the spot where I sat then in the grass and brush last week to paint,
the cottonwoods are so beautiful this time of year. These are next to our neighbor Don's house,
and so are these.
Down at the beach, not in the neighborhood.
Its more like normal now with a steady light rain, but I'm determined to keep doing doing these little paintings regularly and post them here again. So, I'm hereby reviving this blog.... again.
View across the Salmon River from the Smokehouse porch,
another view from the Smokehouse porch,
the Salmon River bridge... I had drawn this in pencil in 2006, forgotten and found in a pile of paper. It took me a while to find the spot where I sat then in the grass and brush last week to paint,
the cottonwoods are so beautiful this time of year. These are next to our neighbor Don's house,
and so are these.
Down at the beach, not in the neighborhood.
Its more like normal now with a steady light rain, but I'm determined to keep doing doing these little paintings regularly and post them here again. So, I'm hereby reviving this blog.... again.
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