The Graveyard (WIP 2)

I have worked some more on this - detail in the foreground, mostly, and some more work on the trucks in the rear.  There is definitely some more work to be done darkening the truck on the left side of the painting. The foliage in the top  needs to be darkened  to bring out the trucks in the front. I sort of hate to lose the poured colors in the top of the painting, so I'll have to spend some time analyzing this.

The Graveyard (WIP)

Well - this is going slowly, but I still think I am making progress with this poured watercolor.  This is watermedia - not watercolor, because I have poured with acrylic inks and I plan to use acrylics for the foliage and some of the final detailing even though I am using watercolor to define shadows and trees, etc.  This is a large painting - almost a full sheet (22"x 30") and I sort of like the "in your face"  qualities in the composition with the focal point falling in the area of the brightest and largest shape - the old yellow truck.  I am enjoying this painting very much - of course I am always happy painting vintage cars and trucks!

The Graveyard

I have been working on a poured painting of a graveyard for rusty vintage trucks.  I finished the drawing yesterday, and prepared the acrylic ink and poured the colors today using the inks.  The painting is in the very early stages.  I love the way acrylic inks mix and blend when they are poured on wet watercolor paper.  I am using 140 lb. cold-pressed Acquerello watercolor paper,and mixtures of Dr. Ph. Martin's Bombay India Ink, and Liquitex acrylic ink.  This is a full sheet of watercolor paper - 22" x 30".

Zentangle Revisited

 I have been preparing a drawing for pouring a painting, and it has been taking some time.  I decided to get away from that and do some Zentangles.  This is one I did last night using two tangles - Knightsbridge and Tipple.  This is small - 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" in size and is done with a micron-pigma black pen.

These are 5 of the 6 painters in my class this session: From left: - Barb Pelly, Dave McNeal, Misty Steinke, Patricia Crawford and Janice Belgiovane.   We were missing Cindy Staples this evening.  They pretty much finished the Nova Scottia paintings tonight - they worked on these for 2 Mondays, and did a beautiful job on these paintings.  They are  great students and great people -  really good friends!  Don't you just love spending time with artists!!!

Grandpa's Pride and Joy finished

I finished "Grandpa's Pride and Joy" this afternoon.  This will be the painting for the next class at Riverside Art Center on Monday night. Of course, you all know that I love painting vintage trucks and cars, especially when they are a little beat-up, rusty and oxidized.  I also loved the colors in this photograph - the contrasting blues, blue-violets, yellow-greens and oranges.

This painting is 8" x 18" and is painted on 140 lb. Acquarello cold-pressed watercolor paper.  I love this paper - it is so responsive and workable.  This painting is taken from a photograph by my friend Pamela Baker of www.bakercreekdesigns.com.  Thank you, Pamela.

I have started another painting of antique/vintage cars.  I finished drawing this today and then applied some masking fluid over the areas of chrome and light that I wanted to preserve.  Now I can paint freely and without fear of losing my lightest areas.  I am going to apply my paint wet-into-wet loosely and pray (like I always do) that it works out!  I just want my blog followers to know that I am still working (since I haven't posted in 10 days) - that I haven't fallen into the great abyss of old, tired artists!  (Just almost!!!) 

This painting is 8" x 18" and is drawn on 140 lb. Acquerello cold-pressed watercolor paper. It is from a photograph taken by my dear friend, and professional photographer, Pamela Baker (www.bakercreekdesigns.com).  Thanks, Pam!