Friday, June 28, 2013

Behind-the-Scenes Look: WILD IRISES -- A Watercolor "Mosaic"

Here's a behind-the-scenes look at my newest painting.







I painted this on paper, with just a few lines, drawn in colored pencil.  I painted the rest, shape by shape, from the bottom up, as you can see.  No drawing, underpainting, masking, layering, or glazing, with this "mosaic" technique (different than what I'm used to).









I'm enjoying the process and results of painting this way, so I'm painting another one now.  This one is Indian Paintbrush & Lupines, with Aspen, (I'll have to work on that title -- haha) -- and is painted on cradled Aquabord.  (pix to follow)

Friday, June 7, 2013

PHOTO CHALLENGE: My May Pix & A New June Challenge

May came and went so quickly -- I think I only completed half this challenge.  Many of these are family shots, because of Mother's Day, some are from another camping trip, and the rest were taken out and about . . .



Day One -- Self & Sons







Day Two -- They Make Me Smile





DAY 3 -- Something I Collect, and DAY 4 -- Something that Stresses Me Out (only because I've collected these books and language courses for 12 years, and haven't been to Italy yet, nor can I speak Italian -- yet!)




Day 5 -- The Cup I Drank From Today




Day 7 -- Someone Who Inspires Me




Day 9 -- Something Made for Me (by my son, Zach)




Day 11 -- Royal Dog




Day 12 -- Out & About




Day 13 -- Nature




Day 14 -- Somewhere We Went (Camping on the Florida River, in SW Colorado)




Day 17 -- Something Strange in the Fire (I assure you, no animals were harmed in the making of this campfire)




Day 18 -- A Sunset . . . Just Because




Day 19 -- American Kestrel












Here are the 30 themes for June, if you'd like to give it a go.  I will try again, and see if I can do better this month . . .

JUNE CHALLENGE THEMES

1.  Breakfast

2.  Travel

3.  Dandelions

4.  Negative Space

5.  Road

6.  Lawn

7.  Three of a Kind

8.  New

9.  My Smile

10.  Something Found

11.  Chocolate

12.  Relax

13.  Exercise

14.  Shadow

15.  From the Side

16.  Fathers

17.  Blue

18.  Today,  I . . . 

19.  In Flight

20.  Upside Down

21.  Vines

22.  Purple

23.  Pathway

24.  Hug

25.  Put It on a Plate

26.  Waiting for . . . 

27.  Leaves

28.  Fresh Produce

29.  Wings

30.  Finally . . . 

Let's celebrate summer!  (for some of us . . . )