Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Yet another painting of the cloister arch:










Saturday, January 10, 2015

I took the old 2011 backyard watercolor:

And trimmed it. Now I like it a bit better.


Here's a rendition of a scene in England. Perspective isn't right. Will try again.



I'm taking Intermediate Watercolor from Jo Myers-Walker. Here are a couple of pages I've drawn in my journal:


Saturday, December 27, 2014

This is a repeat of part of a 2011 painting:


These 2 paintings are from a photo I found on Pinterest:
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This is the photo:


 This is a boring little composition. Adding figures didn't help:


This is from an old newpaper photo. I'm not sure I'm through with it.

Monday, November 17, 2014


This was a good year for pretty autumn leaves. This is from the photo below taken looking east on Bloomington St. in Goosetown.
I'm working on another one that's just the right hand side of this photo, but it isn't finished. I'm thinking about a second brick building on the left and further back to balance the burnt sienna of the one on the right.



Tuesday, October 28, 2014

My last two along with the my photos I worked from.




Friday, October 10, 2014

Two from last week:

The first is from a picture in the Press-Citizen. The second is someone's backyard in Gold Hil;, CO:
 I took the picture because of the poppies, but decided not to include them. I just thought the composition was interesting.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Here's a before and after tale. The first picture I did a couple of years ago, but never liked it much. Then the same picture I trimmed and I like it better.




I've been interested in alleys in my neighborhood and have taken some photos. This is the first painting I've done from them:


And here's the photo: