Cement Man

We just got a new fence a couple weeks ago, and this is a painting of one of the men who poured the footing. He is a young man who had his really cute dog with him.  I ask him if i could take a photo, and he basically posed like he had done it a gillion times before!
This is poured using 6 colors on arches paper. it is 1/2 Sheet.
This was a lot of fun to do!

Brownfield TX

This old station building is in Brownfield TX. Every time I go through there, I have to look for it, and see what the shadows look like!  This is poured instead of being painted with a brush. I still may do some tweaking on it.  Once its poured, you have to work with what you have. It is quite a challenge.  I really like the texture you get with this technique.  I thought my first pouring was too dark, but by going even darker under the drive way, it seemed to work.  This is 1/2 sheet so it is large. 22x28 framed.

Memorial Day 2015

 This painting was poured. I ended up croppig it because I wanted the focus on the flag and window.  Pouring watercolor makes you think! Knowing what to mask and when is hard!

The little camper was in New Mexico. I took this photo several years ago and just wanted to sketch it yesterday, in honor of Memorial Day.

The old barn is behind our house.  It is over 60 years old, and is falling down! Due to the wonderful rains, the sunflowers are growing like crazy back there.

Workshop with Linda Baker

 These are the colors we used this week in a workshop with Linda Baker.  We mixed up little containers and poured our paint.  It was a great week.  Cheap joes furnished our paint, which was really neat! I did a value study sketch first, then I enlarged the sketch. The Painting is 1/2 sheet, on arches watercolor paper.  We used a lot of Pebeo miskit.

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