Pamela's Truck - WIP #1

I worked on the drawing for the watercolor of this wonderful vintage truck painting yesterday and today. My friend Pamela Baker is a wonderful photographer and she has graciously allowed me to use her photographs as source pictures.  What a treat!!!   The size of the painting will be 22" x 15" and is on Canson Tientes 140 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper.

I am drawing the truck by using grids- both on the photograph and on the watercolor paper.  The drawing is done with a 2B pencil.  This is going to be a really exciting painting for me!  The truck is awesome, as you can see in the photograph above the drawing.

Three Oranges - The watercolor version

Since I had the still life set up for yesterday's still life, I decided to do the same subject in watercolor.  I will have to say that the oranges look more like oranges than indescriminate fruit like yesterdays...The painting was 9" x 12", but I cropped it to 8" x 8" and it is painted on 140 lb. cold pressed watercolor paper.

Three Oranges

I painted today with a good friend, Michelle, in my studio.  Michelle set up a still life of three oranges and a white bowl.  Yes - a white bowl!    We had a great afternoon painting together.  The painting is 6" x 6" and is painted in oils on a canvas panel.

California Sky

While watching the Rose Bowl parade New Years Day, I was amazed at the yellow morning sky and the grey mountains in the background.  So - for todays post I decided to do a quick watercolor sketch trying to catch the feeling of those colors that struck me that morning.  This is a 1/2 hour painting - the colors from my memory and the scene from my imagination.

I am going to have a solo show from January 14 through February 26 and have been very busy getting ready for it.  The next few days are going to be hectic, so, though I will paint daily,  my daily posts will be drawings or watercolor sketches.  Hang with me blog readers, and I will be back with paintings soon.

Analogous Dancers

The January Project for Watercolor Workshop is to do a painting in 3 analogous colors.  I chose red-violet, violet and blue-violet.  The painting is 12" x 9" and is painted on 140 lb. cold-pressed  watercolor paper. 

This  painting, like an earlier one from last week,  is also of Makeda dancers.

The Copper Tea Kettle at Forever Antiques

This is the finished painting of the copper tea Kettle. I finished it this afternoon. The finished size is 12" x 9" and is painted on 140 lb. cold-pressed  watercolor paper.  As I mentioned in the first WIP of this painting, it is painted from the photograph taken by my friend Deb Holmes, an excellent photographer.  The kettle was photographed in an antique shop.

The Copper Tea Kettle WIP 3

This is the 3rd "in progress" post on the copper tea kettle.  As you can see, the pot itself is complete and I was getting ready to paint the drapery underneath.  I should have posted this yesterday, but woe...I forgot!