LANDSCAPES

Aspens in Winter

This watercolor was done after I had had fun practicing how to paint aspen trees.  It was from my imagination and influenced by different scenes in the mountains I have seen.

8" x 10" copy $12.00 with a matte frame $15.00

Swamp Lake

This watercolor was inspired by an Art teacher I had many years ago.  He had painted something similar and in memory of him I painted how I remembered his artwork.

8" x 10" copy $12.00 with a matte frame $15.00

Landscapes can be a fun experiment like these two paintings which were from my imagination but with the knowledge of techniques that I could apply.  Some of the techniques that were used were wet in wet so that there seems to be a mist rising from the islands in the lake. The same wet in wet was used for the brown hill and islands.  In the both the aspen painting and the lake painting the trees in the hill and islands are actually done by scrapping with a wire while the paint is still wet.  The aspens are done in the isolated method which is painting water within the shape of the tree trunk and then loading the edge of the brush with black and carefully paint along the wet edge and slightly touching the dry edge.  The black paint will bleed into the wet to give that pealing appearance of the bark and also give a nice line for the edge of the tree trunk.  The fence was also painted in the isolated method with brown paint.  The flowers painted in the marsh was done with acrylic paint.

Autumn Countryside

I got the idea for this painting from seeing something like it in a painting book.

This watercolor is also using a lot of wet in wet technique with dry brush for the grasses and sponge for the tree leaves.

8" x 10" copy $12.00 with a matte frame $15.00