shapes and values exercise

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

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

Daily watercolor painting #363

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

some favored colors

Daily watercolor painting #362

Today's painting goal continues using these combination of colors

yellow pale green and red

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

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

Daily watercolor painting #359

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

floating orbs

Daily watercolor painting #358

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

yellow and red

Daily watercolor painting #360

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

optical depth

Daily watercolor painting #356

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

receding shapes

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

Daily watercolor painting #354

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

yellow and white exercise

Daily watercolor painting #353

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

yellow and white supporting color

Daily watercolor painting #352

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

stand of green and blue on white

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

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

Daily watercolor painting #349

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

mist exercise

Daily watercolor painting #348

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

sunrise exercise

Daily watercolor painting #347

shadows and soybean rows

Daily watercolor painting #346

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

illuminated road

Daily watercolor painting #345

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

mingling exercise

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

Daily watercolor painting #343

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

water marks

Daily watercolor painting #342 on August 8

cool off

Daily watercolor painting #341 from August 7

pacific time

Daily watercolor painting #340

blobbed color on glossy paper

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

color blobs

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

untitled Aug 3

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

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

rolling

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

cloud over the hill

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

cloud exercise

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

the right to graduate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

hollyhocks

Daily watercolor painting #321

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

landscape study

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

cornfields and storm clouds

Daily watercolor painting #319

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

fields and clouds

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

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

summer colors

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