Watercolors Practice

When I'm short on time, looking for inspiration, or checking to see how a painting works, I often get out my pen and watercolors. The pen is to challenge and grow my drawing skills, so not to get too fussy about my marks.

The transparency of watercolors and the light airiness they give to a painting is such a contrast to the thick application of oil that is used with my palette knife paintings. It's always a nice change. Here are some of the little paintings in my journal. You might recognize a few of them from works I've also done in oils.

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Sausalito

My sister lives in San Francisco and has some of the best photos from California. Perhaps since I used her photo, I should be a good sister and send her the painting? Hmmm...

It has been great fun exploring another medium, and I am proud to say that this is my last painting posted for the 30 in 30 challenge. I don't have 30 posts, but I think I did about 20 paintings this month. That's incredible!

4x6 Pen & Watercolor

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Watercolor Whisper

I'm having so much fun painting watercolors. I first tried painting with them in... 2004?? You wouldn't believe the photos I used as reference for these first ever painting attempts. One was a mountain I had hiked with my dad in California, including rocks and a creek in the foreground. Another was a sunset behind a lake with a large tree silhouette. Both on 11x14 paper--poor me! 

5x7 watercolor on paper

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