120PostcardsFromTheEdge: October 2013

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

Saturday, October 12, 2013

a couple in acrylic ink and watercolor. I won a pkg of acrylic Ink from Higgins Ink and have been experimenting with then and watercolor.

the foliage is ink, the path and sky are watercolor

#77 wooded path

the fence , woodgrain and roof are ink, the rest- WC

#78 old barn

Ink background and woodgrain, the rest- WC

#79

I had lots of fun with these

I have also been working on Vellum, with Ink and watercolor, here are few:

#71 Gulls

#72 Legend

here are a few watercolors:

#74 stormy sky

watercolor cardstock

#74

#75 Lucy

and some conte, charcoal and graphite on colored paper

#76

another few I have done in the past few months, these are a few from a mini landscape exchange I did. they are also the first landscape oils I tried. These are a few of my favorites.

#66-70

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

I haven't posted anything here for a while so will add some of what I have done this summer:

Steppin High

watercolor on handmade paper

6x8

#62

Fenceline

ink and watercolor

6x10 sketchbook

#63

Prairie scene (Briercrest line)

ink and watercolor

6x10 sketchbook

#64

one of my first Oils,

A Thorn in my Side

8x24

#65

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