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Orcas Island, plein air watercolor sketching

 

This is the week to get outside to draw and paint.  Learn the techniques for quick interpretations when you are traveling as well as for a slow and steady progress in seeing and recording the world around you.  The summer is starting to slip away. When you take the time to stop and look and draw you lock it away — to be brought out and savored whenever you choose.

We will be outside – 6 or more feet apart and the class limited to 5. Contact me directly for a space – watercolors@rockisland.com or 360 298 2641

This is the season you may be giving paintings as gifts.  Whether you are selling your work or sharing it with loved ones, let me ask you: How are you documenting it for posterity? Don’t laugh…

As summer winds down, many see their days beginning to free up and want to return to more watercolor painting.  Often the where to start and what am I going to do questions cause you to keep putting it off.

Instead, see if you can choose a simple subject and do a small sketch-painting to get you back to painting — each day or most days.

Victorian Gentleman Awaits Interested Party….. We aren’t buying this one but it is based on a house that is about 7 blocks from the one on which we’ve made an offer.
Update: It is never over until the fat lady sings… Mother’s Day found an email with a document attached that terminated our contract with our buyer. We are back on the market. And the house in Anacortes went to the […]

Sorry for the long gap… I started this post in January but life got in the way. Let’s take a look at the steps to wet blending and make sure we understand how to avoid the pitfalls that cause unsucessful cases of wet blending.

[caption id="attachment_1546" align="alignright" width="172"] tree demonstration[/caption]

Let’s continue with ways we use wet blending.  I would suggest that you practice the February 22 lesson until it comes easily and then move on to others way we wet blend.

 

I am late in watching https://kcts9.org/programs/american-masters/episodes/3207 but want to urge you to see it before it is not available through this link so am posting this brief notice.

Caroline by Joanne Davis with apologies to Picasso. “You know how Caroline gets in to her work.
I never posted the 26 painting show of my Orcas work over the year that was held for the month of April at the new Orcas Library.  But DID get the show hung, had a nice reception, and sold quite a few.
Marcia Spees, who has […]