Day Lily Saturated-Wet Watercolor Demo

Here’s a watercolor demo of a painting so new,   it’s not even dry yet….Enjoy!   Slideshow design personalized with Smilebox

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Increase Your Odds Of Painting Every Day

Which Motivates You More?   This?   Or This?   Around 5pm today I pushed myself. I had left at 6:15 am, had been gone all day and had not had a chance to paint. When I got home at 4 pm it was easy enough to pick a day lily from my yard, put [...]

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If It Doesn’t Look Right…

It Probably, Isn’t. Last week when I posted the daylily, I’ve since titled, Carpe Diem, I thought it was near completion. I was actually feeling pretty good about it. Good enough to post it. But when I looked at it the next day, something didn’t look right. What was it? Were the values off? On [...]

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You Gotta Start Somewhere

This week I’ve been reading oil painting instruction books, watching oil painting DVDs while walking on the treadmill and giving it my best shot. Here is the set-up for an oil painting I’ve been working on. I took the reference photo of one of our daylilies last summer. Free-hand sketching with a brush was fun. Not [...]

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“Critique Exchange” Response

One of my subscribers took me up on the “Critique Exchange” offered in the last post and gave me permission to post her painting and the critique. I hope this provides encouragement and  hope to hear from other subscribers who are eligible (as outlined in  last week’s post) by Dec. 15th. White Lily, 24×36, Acrylic, by Carol Evans White [...]

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