A Year of Daily Watercolors by Paula H Greene

shapes and values exercise

2008-09-01T05:45:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #365
One year of daily painting accomplished. My daily blogging is finished for now.
I recommend this kind of exercise because it provides insights into technique weaknesses and strengths which aid in the development of goals for subsequent paintings. thank you to everyone who dropped in and left a comment. cheers

to wind down the road

2008-08-31T05:51:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #364

Today's painting goal is to use some favorite color combinations of pale green and red and yellow to wind down the road of a year's worth of daily painting exercises.

variation on the same theme

2008-08-30T03:58:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #363

Today's painting goal is yellow pale green and red shapes

some favored colors

2008-08-29T03:41:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #362

Today's painting goal continues using these combination of colors

yellow pale green and red

2008-08-28T18:49:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #361

Today's painting goal was to use some of my favorite color combinations of yellow pale green and red

optical exercise

2008-08-27T20:20:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #357(see 360 a few paintings back)

Painting goal was to utilize low values to high values for receding illusion

bright sky

2008-08-26T18:52:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #359

Today's painting goal is vibrant flowing washes for a sunset theme

floating orbs

2008-08-25T03:13:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #358

Today's painting goal is optical depth with color and shape theory applied.

yellow and red

2008-08-24T09:08:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #360

Today's painting goal was bold strokes and fine lines on white

optical depth

2008-08-23T05:06:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #356

Today's painting goal continues optical depth using simple shapes.

receding shapes

2008-08-22T03:43:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #355

Today's painting goal is an optical exercise using simple forms to suggest foreground and receding space

purple and complement on white

2008-08-21T09:36:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #354

Today's painting goal is to use purple and complement shapes on white

yellow and white exercise

2008-08-20T03:44:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #353

Today's painting goal was to continue the yellow and white support for design

yellow and white supporting color

2008-08-19T16:30:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #352

Today's painting goal was to apply lower values to yellow.

stand of green and blue on white

2008-08-18T03:30:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #351

Today's painting goal is to put down green and blue swashes to stand on their own.

red white blue and green

2008-08-17T08:50:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #350

Today's painting goal is to use random shapes with red white blue and green for a visual surprise

white clouds

2008-08-16T05:12:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #349

Today's painting goal was memory exercise with attempt at clouds

mist exercise

2008-08-15T07:57:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #348

Today's painting goal was to recall early morning mist enshrouded landscapes.

sunrise exercise

2008-08-14T03:44:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #347

shadows and soybean rows

2008-08-13T03:45:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #346

Today's painting goal was to recollect a late afternoon image of soybean fields and shadows

illuminated road

2008-08-12T03:26:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #345

Today's painting goal was to recollect an illuminated image created by a break in a storm cloud

mingling exercise

2008-08-10T08:13:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #344

Today's painting goal was a simple use of color commonly seen on the horizon, letting the water and colors mingle for an interesting blend.

swimmer

2008-08-09T06:11:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #343

Today's painting goal was an after image of tv coverage of Beijing Olympics

water marks

2008-08-08T03:39:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #342 on August 8

cool off

2008-08-08T03:36:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #341 from August 7

pacific time

2008-08-06T16:13:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #340

blobbed color on glossy paper

2008-08-05T15:52:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #338
Today's painting goal is a splash of color on glossy ink drawing paper.

color blobs

2008-08-05T15:50:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #337 for Aug 4
The painting goal was a splash red and blue on glossy paper.

untitled Aug 3

2008-08-03T06:24:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #336
Today's painting goal was simply to use a fine line for incongruous colored-in shapes. August 3, 2008 Sunday

floating by in the sky

2008-08-03T06:11:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #335
More cloud shapes. Done Sat Aug 2, 2008

rolling

2008-08-01T19:48:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #334
Today's painting goal was to continue attempt at clouds.

cloud over the hill

2008-07-31T18:24:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #333
Today's painting goal continues with exercises to produce images of cumulus clouds

cloud exercise

2008-07-30T18:50:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #332
Today's painting goal was a quick attempt again at clouds

the right to graduate

2008-07-29T16:43:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #331
Today's painting goal was a sketch after viewing a MacNeil Lehrer current event story of today's graduation ceremony on the west coast, decades after these Japanese people, many now in their 80's were forbidden to receive diplomas during WWII.

western sunset

2008-07-28T09:05:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #330

Today's painting goal idea came from a T.V. story about the director John Ford using Utah as a backdrop for filming westerns in the 1930s. I began the composition with curved lines, used burnt sienna, blue complement and yellow for drama for this western sunset.

old county jail

2008-07-27T13:35:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #329
Today's painting goal was an exercise to color in the lines and utilize some shading to create spatial depth.

yellow sunset

2008-07-26T06:42:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #328
The inspiration for today's painting goal came from a stunning summer landscape photograph posted on Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog. In my mind, the photographer captured the values of green and yellow and the shapes of the trees and fields perfectly. My goal was to push values while using a limited palette to create a specific time and place.

revised #318

2008-07-25T06:25:00.000-07:00

Daily water painting #327
Today's painting goal was to take a relook at a previous daily painting #318, and push the color. Today's attempt gets closer to the dramatic image that I saw earlier this month.

Jean Harlow cloud

2008-07-24T18:23:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #326
Today's painting goal was a memory exercise to recall an early morning landscape wit a Jean Harlow-like cloud formation.

paynes grey ribbons

2008-07-23T16:30:00.000-07:00

daily watercolor painting #325

Today's painting goal was to "color in the lines" using paynes grey which has qualities that lend to creating spatial images

small splashes of rose madder

2008-07-22T18:34:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #324
Today's painting goal was to use much water and a splash of hi and low contrasts with rose madder for dress for an even looserer painting

pink pan flash

2008-07-21T18:09:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #323
Today's painting goal was to loosen up the color for a picture from memory based on yesterday's floral picture.

small bright flowers

2008-07-20T11:35:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #322
Today's painting is a floral design based on a photograph from a calendar.

hollyhocks

2008-07-19T09:26:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #321

Today's painting goal was to create a hollyhock design taking cues from a photograph.

landscape study

2008-07-18T19:59:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #320
Today's painting goal was to recall elements of summer landscapes.

cornfields and storm clouds

2008-07-17T18:42:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #319

Today's painting goal is to continue to develop elements of landscapes from memory.

fields and clouds

2008-07-16T18:30:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #318
Today's watercolor painting goal was to create from memory of recent images of dramatic cloud formations over the fields.

9days later for my daily painting I "pushed " the color .

more storms coming

2008-07-15T15:31:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #317
More storms coming so will post later of the painting of approaching storm.

summer colors

2008-07-14T17:45:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #316
Today's painting goal was to recollect a recently seen summer image of red white and blue decorations for a yellow and white home complemented by a verdant lawn and foliage

white hollyhocks

2008-07-13T15:16:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #315
Today's painting continues this week's color scheme and continues to develop landscape theme

purple vine

2008-07-12T16:05:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #314
Today's painting continues color schemes of this week, and building on floral foliage and landscape elements

july field

2008-07-11T18:48:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #313
Today continues yesterday's color scheme and floral and foliage motif

color exercise

2008-07-10T16:27:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #312
Today's painting is a continuation of pale green black and white and yellow and purple hues.

roadside purple loosestrife

2008-07-09T17:33:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #311
Today's painting continues to utilize yesterday's color combinations.

rabbit by a roadside

2008-07-08T18:10:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #311
Today's painting uses the pale green with black and white yellow and purple to recall a rabbit by a roadside.

pale green effects

2008-07-07T17:31:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #310
Today's painting goal was to experiment with some color combinations, pale green with black white yellow and purple accents.

july storm cloud

2008-07-06T13:28:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #309
Today's painting will be posted later because More thunderstorms in the area so will sign off now.

out shopping

2008-07-05T16:47:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #308
Today's painting idea is from a jovial image of a woman doing errands and pet dog enjoying the passenger seat.

lilies and black-eyed susans

2008-07-04T19:01:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #307
Today's painting goal was to recall the shapes of the petals of lilies and black-eyed susans along the roadsides today.

the steep hill

2008-07-03T16:45:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #306
Today's painting goal was to recollect an image seen while driving and descending a steep hill.

eyelit and pickets

2008-07-02T17:53:00.000-07:00

daily watercolor painting #305
Today's painting goal was to continue with some old favorite color combinations.

foxglove on the shore

2008-07-01T18:00:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #304
Today's painting relies on the magic of water and color with old favorite color combinations.

shades of strawberries

2008-06-30T17:50:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #303
Today's painting was a rapid burst of red and green to describe one image of strawberries and leaves.

a ridge

2008-06-29T19:09:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #302
Today's painting goal was a sky scape of clouds using the contrasts from grey, blue and white surrounding distant ridges.

light source

2008-06-28T16:47:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #301
Today's painting idea began with an early a.m. scene of dramatic contrasts caused by new fields and dark clouds.

petunias in a flower bed

2008-06-27T17:33:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #300
Today's painting goal was to depict the contrast seen today from a flower bed of purple and petunias and other flowers.

puddle

2008-06-26T17:17:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #299
Today's painting idea was a short drift from much more rain that we had in western Iowa today. A happier thought, rainboots and puddles

fireflies

2008-06-25T17:43:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #298
Today's painting was just a look at the complements of yellow and purple again...with white to paint a scene of fireflies.

bloom

2008-06-24T17:58:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #297
Today's painting is a memory exercise for a composition in recognition of early hollyhock blooms.

over by mulberry lane

2008-06-23T16:34:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #296
Today's painting uses more green and a composition of round shapes with some simple straight lines.

Loess Hills summer 2008

2008-06-22T10:00:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #295

Using the techniques of attention to value of a green hue to create spatial depth in yesterday's painting was my goal for today for another summer landscape from my imagination. I also liked yesterday's result from the use of white to enhance the contrast that one encounters on a very sunny day, and added deep shadow to accent the light source.

summer in the Loess Hills, Iowa

2008-06-21T07:10:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #294
Today's painting goal was a memory exercise of the color green, with attention to values in order to create the spatial qualities of a recently observed landscape.

white yellow and payne's grey palette

2008-06-20T06:07:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor #293
Using limited palette paynes' grey, cadmium yellow for today.

bright flower with delicate stalk

2008-06-19T16:46:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #292
Goal? paint on paper and similar to imagining objects from shapes of clouds, develop an image.

sunset

2008-06-18T18:43:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #291
Today's painting utilizes colors from a recently observed sunset. The muted sky colors appeared to accentuate the vibrant yellow green of the fields.

seasonal color dollops

2008-06-17T17:56:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #290
Some dollops of seasonal color for today's goal.

dabs of yellow

2008-06-16T19:32:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #289
Today's painting began with the idea to continue the limited palette of yellow, paynes grey and white and then evolved into a flower patch.

white grey and yellow design

2008-06-15T16:04:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor paintings #288
Today's painting goal was to use a limited palette of yellow, paynes' grey and white to create a design.

elephant

2008-06-14T07:18:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #287

I've been seeing elephants lately, in photos, at the local circus..so here is an elephant with attention to negative and positive shape in the composition and some coloration for interest and definition of shape.

a sort of landscape for a sort of journey

2008-06-13T18:48:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #286
I was saddened to hear the news of the passing of Tim Russert who has been a welcome household fixture during this primary season, and election 2008.
Today's daily painting began as color shapes that began to take shape as a possible landscape, a few details to define the space and possibly an imaginary narrative.

tornado

2008-06-12T19:05:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #285
Today's painting was a recollection of the image I saw around 7pm last night after hearing on the news that a tornado had been spotted a few miles south. The light area on the right was a huge wall that traveled and reached my house within a few minutes. It was frightening and also deadly as it had taken the lives of 4 young boy scouts minutes before. Our community has wondered out loud all today.

more storms

2008-06-11T15:23:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #284
more mid western storms.

between the storms

2008-06-10T18:11:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #283
Today's painting goal was to capture some of the vivid colors that have been on display in Iowa during the breaks in the recent fierce thunderstorms.

turtle trek

2008-06-09T07:54:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #282

Today's painting goal was to use elements of color and landscape and compose a memorable sight from yesterday of seeing a big turtle cross a road.

baby in a garden

2008-06-08T11:18:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #281

Today's painting goal was to use elements of shape, landscape and color theory to create a narrative of a baby in a garden.

a mild summer day

2008-06-07T15:38:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #280

Today's painting goal was to use color theory and spatial techniques to compose a narrative from a recently seen image.

June 5 storm & June 6 color exercise

2008-06-06T20:35:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #279

The goal was to place color on paper so a simple design was drawn and then colored in. Reminds me of Miro and Mondrian.

Daily watercolor painting #278

Much electrical atmospheric activity prohibited posting on June 5 and here's a loose style of painting to interpret a storm

feeding the squirrel

2008-06-04T17:32:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #277
Today's painting was a recollection of a little girl, who, while visiting with grandmother, was given some bread to feed the squirrel that lived in the tree outside the apartment complex.

plant with venetian blinds

2008-06-03T15:54:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #276
Today's painting goal was to recollect a recently observed image.
will post later

evening settles in

2008-06-02T21:15:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #275

For today's painting I used an interior still life and a pet dog to create a narrative.

the cherry tree

2008-06-01T17:57:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #274

Today's painting goal was to compose an idyllic warm weather narrative.

busy beaver club 2008

2008-05-31T09:26:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #273

Today's painting began with the idea of a foliage design motif and developed into a narrative of a warm summer scene inspired by the unseasonal 80 degree temps yesterday and today.

storm clouds and may lightning

2008-05-30T04:45:00.000-07:00

may lightning 5.30.08

storm clouds 5.29.08

Daily watercolor paintings # 271 and #272

Too much electrical activity with the storms last night for the computer and now here's the paintings intepreting the storm.

the price of a Jihad

2008-05-28T17:08:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #270

Today I was shook up to see a photograph on Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog of a wounded child and I was compelled to paint a picture of a child wounded in the name of Jihad or any other war.

may iris

2008-05-27T18:04:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #269

Today's painting was a recollection of some vivid colors of an iris on a rainy day.

3 day old fledglings

2008-05-26T18:11:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #268

Today's painting goal was to record image of 3 day old fledglings being fed.

misty may morning

2008-05-25T18:32:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #267

Today's painting goal was to recollect an image of an early morning mist..

around the bend

2008-05-24T19:10:00.000-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #266

Today's painting goal began while driving home from work today when I made a mental note of this scene to paint tonight.

two roads

2008-05-23T18:20:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #265

Today's composition is based on an impression of a dirt road and a concrete road.

running amok

2008-05-22T18:57:00.001-07:00

Daily watercolor painting #264

Today's painting was an illustration of a recent wild escapade through town ( as reported by several witnesses) .