120PostcardsFromTheEdge: February 2014

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

Thursday, February 27, 2014

here are also a couple sketches I did in my journal,
the first is at seven sacred pools on the Hana Highway
the second from Maluaka Beach

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#97

Hey everyone
just got back from 2 weeks in Maiu, enjoying the beauty and the art scene.
I painted several small watercolors and postcards while there:

12 postcards