Tag Archives: Watercolor
Between Tides – Painting of the Week
Your Art Collection
Between Tides is an original 1987 watercolor featuring the tranquil Santa Barbara harbor. Recently, an Antiques Ro...
Roadway Adornments – Painting of the Week
Seeing the Sphere in Landscape Painting
Have you ever noticed how much more captivating a roadway becomes when framed by trees? The va...
Student’s Notes – Painting of the Week
The Joy of Teaching
If you enjoy children, you might enjoy reading these notes. It was a joy to teach the Park Christian 3rd graders h...
Painting of the Week – Watercolor Sketch of Medora
Studying the Landscape
A museum in California sent me a 5” x 5” piece of watercolor paper asking me to paint on it as a donation. It w...
Painting of the Week – Night Driving
Value Proportions
Driving down roads introduces us to many beautiful views. Despite the fact that the road is often my direct point of...
Painting of the Week – Loch Lomond
Dramatic Darks
Here is a view or Loch Lomond from our pool at dusk. The mountain still had light on it at sunset and the tree in the f...
Painting of the Week – Shade & Shelter
In the Shadows
My initial interest in painting Shade & Shelter was the rhythm of the shadows defining the overlapping rows of Soyb...
Painting of the Week – Fall Equinox
When is a Painting Done?
In the fall, the Earth’s tilt is moving away from its maximum lean towards the Sun. Its rays are aiming direc...
Painting of the Week – Gated Community
Background Decisions
These Agave plants lined the fence at Sunnylands Estates here in Rancho Mirage, California. I had just stopped o...
Painting of the Week – Golden Reserve
Seeing the Big Shape
Golden Reserve shows a more modern way of handling hay than we used on our farm growing up. My sister Darin and I...