the woodpile

From a photo of a neighbor's place:

Another take on the alley. Then a still life.

Catching up

I'm about 6 paintings behind on my posting here. Most of these are from photographs I took. I want to work a little more on the porch swing. I think adding some reflected color to the colums would tone them down:

Copying Catherine Rey

Thanks to my new art group for getting me to wet a paintbrush again after a long absence. 

So this is a copy I painted of a Catherine Rey watercolor I found on line.  I would still like to do more to the background & some other things.

This is her original watercolor.

Early Spring, 2016

After a few months away, I'm painting some again.

Hot weather kept me indoors & I came up with these two:

I decided to try again on one of last year's paintings. First the 2014. Then the 2015. Not sure much improved. In fact I think I like last year's better. Maybe some ink on the second one will help. And a redder red. I also think the perspective is off. foreground cars should be larger.