shades of strawberries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

over by mulberry lane

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

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

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

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

bright flower with delicate stalk

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

sunset

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

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

dabs of yellow

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

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

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

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

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

Daily watercolor painting #284
more mid western storms.

between the storms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

evening settles in

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

Daily watercolor painting #274

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