Misc

More info on the eye for my students... Take some time this week to draw out an eye from a magazine, photo or using this diagram.  I'd love to see what you come up with. Happy drawing and painting!

Here are some eye studies for you to follow.  A nice way of studying the eye is to get photos from magazines with different viewpoints and varying colors and draw and/or paint them. Here I am using 3 primary colors:  Winsor Blue Green Shade, Permanent Rose and...

Next paint in your darker shadow areas and wala!  An ear.

Here is an ear study... Ears are so much fun to paint.  First lay down a wash.  Then watch until the paper starts to dry and lift some color out in the lightest areas.  That will get your form started.

Watercolor study of an eye using Winsor Violet, Winsor Blue Green Shade, Permanent Rose, Winsor Orange, and Winsor Yellow. To create the brown eye, I used a combo of Winsor Violet and Winsor Orange.

Here I've continued my three color glazing process, building in forms, shadows and the features of Kerri's face.  I'm interested at this point more at suggesting form than painting in details.  I'm also trying to get the turn of the neck and the form of the...

Soon to be finished is my new painting, Spring Blooming Quince  Just a few tweeks and it will be up in my gallery.

I'm so pleased and proud to announce that my work is being featured on Chris Beck’s watercolor blog:  http://brush-paper-water.blogspot.com starting today. Chris Beck is a San Francisco area watercolorist and a signature member of both the Transparent Watercolor...

Tracy Lewis is a wonderful contemporary watercolorist. Her work is absolutely yummy, innovative and a bit macabre as her blog title attests: http://lollipopmacabre.wordpress.com. In the past, Tracy has taken some of my workshops and classes, but, she also studied with...

Dan Petersen the co-judge of the 43rd Motherlode Art Exhibition is an equally, though different, inspiring artist and man.  His watercolors of the majestic Sierra Mountiain region are full of color and amazing detail. Dan says:  "My ultimate goal is to pay homage to...