Hal's Gladiolas

I was gifted with these beautiful gladiolas from our neighbor and wanted to capture them in watercolor.
I have been inspired to paint flowers after seeing the Joseph Raffael Exhibition, that is currently in Fort Collins at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
If you have the chance, I would highly recommend seeing these paintings before they leave town. The exhibit runs through August 20th!
http://www.fcmoca.org/see/current.html

WOW Workshop - yes another cruiser!

I could not leave without drawing yet a new cruiser bike. This will be
fun adding the watercolor to the hot press paper it was drawn on.

WOW Workshop - week II - day 3

We headed back to the Frisco Marina for our final paint day of the
workshop.
This demo is a trio of docked sail boats and we renamed the front boat
WOW!

WOW Workshop - week II - day 2

This mornings demo was a "Zen with the Pen" approach. There is a
Starbucks in Breckenridge, Colorado.

WOW Workshop - week II

We had our second workshop the week of July 20th.
This demo is in the beginning stages. I completed a value sketch with
burnt sienna and ultramarine blue first.
The location is the Blue River at the Riverwalk in Breckenridge.

New Belgium Cruiser

I found this bike at the marina and started it as demo #2 for the day.
A waterproof fine tip marker was used, then with a waterbrush I began
adding watercolor.

Frisco Marina demo

This was the first painting of the morning. We had a few challenges,
first off the red boat sailed off and then the wind came and stayed.
That is truely " plein air" painting!

River and Rock demo

I drew a section of the river with a waterproof fine tip marker and
then added watercolor. A 6 X 8" cold press watercolor block was my
painting surface.

Quick portrait demo

A pencil contour and watercolor painted on cold press paper.

"Zen" with the pen demo

This was completed on hot press paper with the contour drawing first,
then watercolor added.