Inspired by one of my favorite quotes "If you are not living on the Edge, you are taking up too much Space", and also the challenge of Larry Seiler, from whom I am following a teaching webcast on painting and stretching my boundarys, I am going to start a blog of 120 (or more) paintings, all postcard size, some from life, others from photos refs. they will be primarily watercolor, as I strive to become a better watercolorist, but I may also deviate into other areas as my fancy takes me. I love to experiment so you never know what might surface.


I love ink drawings colored with watercolor or colored ink. but I am also trying to lay color down without first drawing , trying to loosen up the compulsion to detail that I have

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

One final furbaby, this is Trixy, photo ref by surob from wetcanvas.  I painted this with gouache in a brown paper sketchbook. the paper was not very absorbant so it is painted fairly loose



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This is Bunny , special friend to Robert or 'scappy' from wetcanvas. He led us through a wonderful workshop in painting fur. Bunny is paitned in gouache on a watercolor background


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This one is one of my cats, Lacey. She is a little thing, who does not know that she is disabled. She was attacked by a tom cat when she was a couple months old. She sufferes from a crushed disc in her back, and also has a heart murmur. We did not know if she would ever walk again, but she is now 7 yrs old , walks and gallops about with a dog-track gate, is fearless but also codependant



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I have been playing with Gouache lately and trying to learn how to paint fur through the Learning Zone of wetcanvas. There was a wonderful workshop offered by wetcanvas' Scappy, who is a marvelous artist.
the first offering is Rowdy, an australian blue heeler, photo ref by missswiss



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