June Work

I'm working through Jeanne Dobie's Making Watercolor Sing book and am in "Chapter 2 - Mouse Power:  Achieving Luminous Greys."  Instead of mimicking her work, I've decided in order to grow with my own style, I need to draw and paint my own pictures.  Below are two attempts from a photo I took while traveling in Ecuador a few years ago.

This one is my first attempt in my watercolor journal.  It was okay but I wanted to try again...

 ...so I did another attempt in my Arches Watercolor Field book and like it better.  The only thing is I labored over the drawing.  Now I want to try and do a quick sketch and painting to more imitate being out in the field painting.  I'll try that next.

Finally, here is a watercolor journal entry I did early in June of my backyard studio that Joe built for me last Summer.  I love my studio and the corner porch that comes off of it!  While I was pleased with my drawing, I'm not too crazy about my colors, but oh well...paint and learn!

Fanciful Flowers - Week 1

As mentioned in my previous post, I'm taking another online class through Joggles.com called "Fanciful Flowers" and below is this week's project (after drawing and painting different flowers).  First I painted my flower leaving the white background.  Then I painted a second sheet with the flower colors and added salt to get the white fleck texture.  Then I cut both up into strips and wove them together.  An interesting exercise.

Calendar Journal

Thought I'd give this a try...each day reflecting a little on what I did.  I'm taking a "Fanciful Flowers" class with Sondra Holtzman as an online Joggles class.  Our first week is to draw and paint different shaped flowers.  Those included on my calendar are the cup-shape (tulip) the wheel-shape (Coreopsis) the trumpet-shape (Red Penstemon) and I'm not sure what shape the Butterfly Pincushion qualifies as.