Light House II - class demo

watercolor
seascape
14 x 21

This is the demo painting that I did for one of my Wednesday classes last week. This week 2 of the classes will be painting their light houses and then the other Wednesday class will be painting a barn. Next week hopefully they will have them finished so that we can have a big critique in each class. I like to give them a topic and see what they come up with. Part of being an artist is researching the subject matter.

Did you see the little man on the rocks? Is he looking at the birds or is he ready to jump....he is actually JUMBY with a head. lol. How many remember Gumby and Pokey?

I still have to do this week's challenge on the dailypaintworks site. Watch for it.

Heading Back Home

watercolor
14" x 21"
landscape

This is a very common scene about 2 hours from my home. I had taken this photo of the buggy in the fall, I had a photo of a street scene and I made up the composition and the farm area. It is fun to have an artistic license.

Boats by the Dock

14 x 21
watercolor
landscape

These are some boats that really needed to be painted (play on words). They were actually near the area where the previous dock painting was pauinted from.

At the Dock

watercolor
landscape
21" x 14"

This is really near to my home and I took my photo reference for this years ago and I just felt now was the time to paint it. Enjoy.

Light House Demo step-by-step

watercolor
seascape
14" X 21"

This is the demo that I did for the afternoon class today. I want them to try to use less colors. The student's had to bring in their own reference photos and then do a value sketch. They will finish theirs up next week and then we will have a critique of all of them.

"Family-Tree"

watercolor
landscape
14" x 21"
$150

Thought I would get a few more snow scenes in before this season is over. Hopefully spring will come soon and then I will be painting flowers. We have been having crazy weather here...one day tornados (south of me in Indiana) and then the next day it snows. Today it hit 65 but is windy as all get out. (what does that term mean?) Good thing it is not raining because this is not the winds you want with any kind of rain.

Escape to a Higher Education

watercolor
14" x 21"

Thought I would play with the design of the fire excape and create this painting. I love the title. Enjoy. Have a great week.