Sampler
It seems I may be done with sea foam and water… for now. I saw a photo that inspired me. I know, how could this inspire anyone? But earlier I had seen a photo of yellow maple leaves on the…
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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…
And Another
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…
Just another shell
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…
Tolkien Clouds
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…
A Break at the beach
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…
Practice might make Perfect some day
Another day, another koi. I am determined to get this right. The last one – obviously – the koi were too small and got lost. So let’s make the koi and lily pads bigger, shall we? I found a photo…
One of these days
I started out with hope. I will figure this out. I told myself So yes, another koi. Doing small fish amongst the lily pads is so not working for me so I decided to try something I have done recently…
You might think…
After all these failures and learning lessons that it could only get better from here. You might think so. I might hope so. But no. Little steps after little steps. So I am getting better at figuring out how to…
Just one more
Just one more and I can master painting koi, I told myself. One problem with all these stumbles and pretty crappy paintings is that it has pretty much ceased to be fun. And I do this for fun! Yes, it…