I am going to take an online course from Amy at Mindful Art Studio (I started seeing her work on Facebook and she has YouTube videos, too.). If you’re interested, she has a lot of little freebies on her site.
Obviously, I cannot choose between playing with bold color or just going a monochromatic theme! Ha ha
Started this one in watercolor and didn’t like it as a finished piece so went in with gouache, adding some flowers and greenery here and there and amping the color in the face.
Our local Campbell County Extention Center has a wonderful garden kept current and blooming by volunteers and workers from the University of Kentucky group of gardeners. There is usually something interesting to photograph and paint there. But, lately, it’s been so hot and sticky, we haven’t gone out there much…and when we do, there is nothing much blooming to inspire. So I chose to photograph some of the garden statues scattered around. All are small and concrete but I wanted them to have a touch of color so using one single color on each statue…
Had a scrap piece of paper - Fluid watercolor paper 140# cold press. Just put some color on without drawing and then had to go back in with white gouache to bring out the lights. Oh, well, you win some, you lose some.
This year, the iris at the Extention Center here in our area did not bloom much at all - pretty lax effort due to heat, drought, whatever. So only a few worth taking photos of and painting.
This one gave me fits so this is actually the second version - first version was awful due to bad drawing to start it.
This one is on the Stonehenge Aqua hot press paper and just getting the brushes wet again after a while off.
Strawberry Moon
Finished this sketchbook with this painting…just trying to get back to painting after a while (seems like a long time but it’s not that long, really).
Was inspired by Randall David Tipton’s work but this looks nothing like his latest round yupo paintings. Oh, well.
Hope your July is not too sweltering or stormy, wherever you are.
