EARTH DAY 2015 and A MANGO TREE POUR

A Mango Tree - ((pour))

The drawing. 11 x 15 on Arches 140lb cold press

The first layer of masking

The first pour and the paint is wet so it looks very dark

Second pour and the paint is dry. Watercolor always dries much lighter

After 2 pours I decided it was enough. I took off the masking. Tomorrow I'll finish the background (the white areas) and do some direct painting to complete this.

And a video will be posted to YouTube....sooooon

Sunny Saturday

It's finally warm enough to have shorts on with all the windows and doors open! Hurry up summer!!

I did this avocado tree painting from a Weekend Drawing Event on Wet Canvas. I know it says Drawing Event but it has morphed into any which way you want to create is just fine.

So this painting looks a little more like 2 avocados and one fat lime. Could it be that on Norfolk Island they have trees like this? Me doubts it................LOL

This is approximately 11 x 8 inches. Painted with Daniel Smith watercolors on 156lb watercolor paper.

A TOMBOW LANDSCAPE - video

A Tombow Landscape - 4 part video

For myself I don't like to sit down and watch a whole YouTube video for an hour. Short is best for me. So I painted this in short segments so as not to bore myself AND you.
Part one is the shortest video with 2, 3 and 4 being almost 20 minutes long.
Don't forget to comment and leave a THUMB UP


Part ONE
A Tombow Landscape HERE



Part TWO
A Tombow Landscape HERE



Part THREE
A Tombow Landscape HERE



Part FOUR
A Tombow Landscape HERE

APRIL 13th

More tombow BUT this time with teabags!!!

WHAT???

Yes....a friend told me about this and I saw some of her paintings. She dried out used teabags, emptied the tea from them and then glued the opened up bags to watercolor paper. TAAA DAAAH

I went straight in with the tombow and then added watercolor BUT very little color was needed as the glued down teabags created color in an antique sort of way.

11 x 15 - a watercolor and teabag landscape

APRIL 11

I'm a bit more than half way through a 15 day LANDSCAPE challenge. I played a little bit last night with letting the paint and water make the painting. I also used an old credit card to make some birch trees. Both of these paintings were fun (and easy) to do. Perhaps a video on how to do these would be fun to make, and see?

Wet into wet. Paint. Water. Then negative painting to have the 'tree' stand out a bit more. FUN, FUN

A 5 minute painting. I cut up an old credit card and used the edge(s) to carve out some birch trees.

APRIL 2015 - 2

I'm up in Canada attempting some plein aire paintings! I am seriously trying but in all reality I SUCK!
But stay tuned....more short and sweet videos are on their way!  ((I need to get home first, but you get the idea))

APRIL 2015

The TOMBOW video is done! Short and SWEET

Click on the links below and it'll take you to YouTube


PART ONE - tombow (1)

PART TWO - tombow (2)



ENJOY!!


P.S. somehow, someway, the PART ONE is double posted....so after you see my old lady hands (that look like old leather gloves with finger nails) stop watching UNLESS you want to see it again!!! SORRY.....lol