Sunday, August 31, 2008

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.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

variation on the same theme


Daily watercolor painting #363
Today's painting goal is yellow pale green and red shapes

Friday, August 29, 2008

some favored colors


Daily watercolor painting #362
Today's painting goal continues using these combination of colors

Thursday, August 28, 2008

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

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

bright sky


Daily watercolor painting #359
Today's painting goal is vibrant flowing washes for a sunset theme

Monday, August 25, 2008

floating orbs


Daily watercolor painting #358
Today's painting goal is optical depth with color and shape theory applied.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

yellow and red


Daily watercolor painting #360
Today's painting goal was bold strokes and fine lines on white

Saturday, August 23, 2008

optical depth


Daily watercolor painting #356
Today's painting goal continues optical depth using simple shapes.

Friday, August 22, 2008

receding shapes


Daily watercolor painting #355
Today's painting goal is an optical exercise using simple forms to suggest foreground and receding space

Thursday, August 21, 2008

purple and complement on white


Daily watercolor painting #354
Today's painting goal is to use purple and complement shapes on white

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

yellow and white exercise


Daily watercolor painting #353
Today's painting goal was to continue the yellow and white support for design

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

yellow and white supporting color


Daily watercolor painting #352
Today's painting goal was to apply lower values to yellow.

Monday, August 18, 2008

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.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

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

Saturday, August 16, 2008

white clouds


Daily watercolor painting #349
Today's painting goal was memory exercise with attempt at clouds

Friday, August 15, 2008

mist exercise


Daily watercolor painting #348

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

Thursday, August 14, 2008

sunrise exercise


Daily watercolor painting #347

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

shadows and soybean rows


Daily watercolor painting #346
Today's painting goal was to recollect a late afternoon image of soybean fields and shadows

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

illuminated road


Daily watercolor painting #345
Today's painting goal was to recollect an illuminated image created by a break in a storm cloud

Sunday, August 10, 2008

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.

Saturday, August 9, 2008

swimmer


Daily watercolor painting #343
Today's painting goal was an after image of tv coverage of Beijing Olympics

Friday, August 8, 2008

water marks


Daily watercolor painting #342 on August 8

cool off


Daily watercolor painting #341 from August 7

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

pacific time


Daily watercolor painting #340

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

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

Friday, August 1, 2008

rolling


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