Journal

Cowboy Portrait Wednesday

KAREN RAMSAY — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:12:51 +0000

Tonight the Fort Collins Portrait Artists had the chance to paint Randy, the real life cowboy. A great evening of painting, right down to the country tunes!

Tuesday Evening • Class Demo

KAREN RAMSAY — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:10:05 +0000

The class subject was florals and I started this demo of hollyhocks. My palette was aureolin, quinacridone gold, cerulean blue, french ultramarine blue, sap green and permanent rose.

Wednesday Evening Portrait Painting

KAREN RAMSAY — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:20:35 +0000

This is Michael our model for tonight's Fort Collins Portrait Painters. I stepped out and worked on a new paper, 300lb arches hot press and a new color palette.

Tuesday Evening • Class Demo

KAREN RAMSAY — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:14:20 +0000

This painting was started wet on wet, in order to create soft edges and blended colors. After it began to dry, the background was painted in as a darker negative shape behind the golden lit bushes. The palette was very simple, burnt sienna, french ultramarine blue and quinacridone gold.

CSU Trial Gardens

KAREN RAMSAY — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:02:00 +0000

The Monday watercolor class spent the afternoon enjoying this spectacular garden on the Colorado State University campus. The challenge was simplifying all this wonderful color. This is the mid staged demo I was working on.

Gardens on Spring Creek • Plein Air Saturday

KAREN RAMSAY — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:51:52 +0000

We enjoyed a beautiful fall day painting at The Gardens on Spring Creek last Saturday. This is the demo I started using three colors, rose madder, raw sienna and french ultramarine blue. I also pulled out the Ace "tree brush", a 1/2" natural bristle brush that lets you get random color mixing and loose brush work.

SketchCrawl in Fort Collins

KAREN RAMSAY — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:10:30 +0000

Today is a worldwide SketchCrawl. I will report in on the total number of crawlers as the sun sets. There were 4 of us that sketched at the Northern Colorado Feeders Supply on Linden Street. These are a couple of scenes I captured this morning.

In Your Own Backyard

KAREN RAMSAY — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:38:25 +0000

Today we had a fall morning paint out in my own backyard! How exciting to know one does not have to travel a great distance to pull out the paints! Remember location, location, location is closer than you think!

Plein Air at The Gardens on Spring Creek

KAREN RAMSAY — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:35:47 +0000

We had a class of seven artists painting their way around the gardens this past Saturday. This is my quick start demo of some little pincushion flowers.

Breckenridge Stables

KAREN RAMSAY — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:23:06 +0000

I painted with WOW (women of watercolor) yesterday in Breckenridge, Colorado. We had a fun, yet challenging day capturing the wranglers, trail riders and horses! Here are a couple of buddies waiting their turn for a little single file riding.