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.