Painting lessons: tips and techniques from an award winning oil and watercolor artist, her work focus is interesting light and shadow patterns. Favorite subjects are Flowers, Shore Scenes, Pet Portraits, Illustrations, Design.
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This is a recent oil painting of mine that I framed in a beautiful wood frame. The painting would look nice in a dining room just in time for Thanksgiving. The overall dimensions are 30" x 36" and the painting is on canvas. I have this painting on...
I have continued adding detail to the watercolor painting of the Florence Griswold Museum. There is interesting architectual details in the building that I have added to the painting. As I am painting I step back and look at the painting from a...
When you compare this stage of the painting with the previous two photos in my last post I have continued darkening values. More details to the building and trees have been painted with my colors: new gamboge, winsor blue, indigo and brown madder. So...
I have picked my color scheme for the watercolor of the Florence Griswold Museum. I want to use all transparent colors so the paper will show through and be more luminescent. My colors are new gamboge, raw sienna, brown madder, indigo, alizarin...
This is my pencil sketch of the Florence Griswold Museum located in my hometown of Old Lyme, Connecticut. In the spring when the daffodils were in bloom I carried my chair and sketchpad to the front lawn of the museum and made the sketch shown here....
