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

white hollyhocks

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

purple vine

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

july field

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

color exercise

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

roadside purple loosestrife

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

rabbit by a roadside

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

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

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

out shopping

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

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

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

eyelit and pickets

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

foxglove on the shore

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