
Happy at last
At least for now. It is rare that I finish a painting and think, “That’s good. I am happy with it”. So I am savoring this! Anyway, I can’t find the reference photo I used. It was a green turban…
...watercolor, stuff and nonsense
...watercolor, stuff and nonsense


At least for now. It is rare that I finish a painting and think, “That’s good. I am happy with it”. So I am savoring this! Anyway, I can’t find the reference photo I used. It was a green turban…

As noted in my last post, I usually work on several paintings at a time. And yes, I get obsessed with something and paint it over and over again until I get it “right” – that is until I am…

I am loving painting another photo of a shell on the beach and inspired about the next beach scene. In a moment of contemplation, I thought, wait? What? Is this all I am going to do? Sand and shells? That’s…

Odd things inspire me. I saw this illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien (yes, he could do everything well) and I wanted to try to do “Tolkien Clouds”. I read The Hobbit as a kid and Tolkien’s illustrations, to me, were fine…

I needed a break from failing at painting koi – and starting to hate watercolor – so I decided to try something. I use masking a lot and I was wondering how it would look to build texture by laying…