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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Lemonade - Watercolors

Lemonade Anyone



A quick sketch and then watercolors to finish up this glass of lemonade.  Lemons - Lemonade is very good for one's digestive system and it also aids when used as a cleanse.  



Watercolor Wild Flowers

Watercolor daisy and forget-me-nots

watercolor wild rose and scabious

Watercolors!

My Watercolor Palette!




So many of my friends have asked about my watercolor palette.  I set it up to be similiar to the color wheel.  Beginning with different tones/shades of yellows - then oranges - then reds, moving around to blues, greens, browns and I save the last two cups for Payne's Gray and Titanuim White.   All my paints in this palette are squeezed from tubes.  I do have other palettes that come in hard squares that you just pop into the palette.

Actually this is a fairly basic palette.  I like to use strong colors and then mix to create new colors that will be all my own - never to be matched by anyone else.  

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

A few fun pieces

Always having fun sketching and watercoloring 


This one is of three friends on the beach front



These are geraniums from my front garden that I sketched a pot to add demension.  First I sketched it with graphite pencil and then did a light water color wash. 




I call this In Her Easter Bonnet!  Cute!  Taken from the Art of Vogue 1909 - 1940.  Pencil sketched  and then did a light watercolor wash.  


This is my home - a work in progress.  Sketching with graphite pencil. It was built in 1996 and I thought it would be fun to add to "the wall" . . . I hang my work all over my home!  Much to my husband's distress!  LOL. 


And this cute little bird was a Art Trading Card event held each month (or so) by Grumbacher.  I entered and then they post all the entries.  Fun.  Oh participants also get a trading card in return.  After a number of trades you receive free product from Grumbacher!


Contemporary Art Works by Theresa - Sketches

Having Fun with Sketching!

March 2016



The next sketch was taken from the cover of The Art of Vogue  1909 - 1940.  Its a fun source to find interesting people and fashion to sketch. This is a young girl checking her makeup in a hand held mirror compact.




Saturday, March 12, 2016

Contemporary Art Works by Theresa - Sweet Teenager

Sweet Teenager

Graphite Pencil with Watercolor Wash

3/12/2016




Contemporary Art Works by Theresa - Sneakers . . . .

Sneakers

or do you prefer to say Tennis Shoes?

Graphite Pencil with a Watercolor Wash

3/12/2016


I like to sketch.  Actually that is a lie.  I love to sketch.  I started out with a pencil learning to draw, drawing in the negative space first to get your actual picture, than adding to or taking away from it to make the sketch the way you wanted it.  Then I started with watercolors.  Wow, how I loved those watercolors but they are so unforgiving.  So if you make a mistake - consider it a part of the painting and just work it in somehow.  Unlike acrylics, oils, prisma or pastel pencils there is no painting over to correct an error.  So I learned to love my mistakes with watercolors  . . . and so here I am.  Today.  Loving sketching and watercolors!

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Contemporary Art Works by Theresa - Bridget, inspired by Saint Briget of Kildare, Ireland

Bridget

Graphite Pencil, Watercolor Wash
March 10, 2016




Meet Bridget

Bridget got her name by an artist friend of mine, Peggy (check out her amazing creativity on her blog TheHouseofKent.blogspot.com).  When I told Peggy I loved this painting of mine so much that I wanted to name her - Peggy wrote:  Bridget, inspired by Saint Briget of Kildare, a patron saint of Ireland.  She shares her name with an important Celtic goddess, and there are many legends and folk customs associated with her.  She was a goddess poets adored and associated with Spring.  Peggy also said, "She just looked Irish to me, I think with the red hair."

Thank you Peggy for giving my art lady her name!  Bridget - I love it!

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Contemporary Art Works by Theresa - Sketching Every Day!

Catching up on my posting . . . . . sketching every day to improve my skills - I can see progress!  And some I've even added a water color wash, since I love watercolors and their transparency!



White Heron as seen in my back yard pond! Febuary 2016 Graphite Pencil

Girl Scout - February 2016 - Graphite Pencil


Sweet Young Girl - March 2016 - Graphite Pencil



First Oscar in celebration of the Oscars!  Febuary 2016 - Graphite Pencil 
Birthday Surprise!  March 2016 Graphite Pencil with a Watercolor Wash

 Rainy Day Sketching just for the fun of it.  1950's fashion!  Graphite Pencil March 2016

More rainy day sketching Graphite Pencil March 2016

Just plain ole' fun listening to CNN reports the winners of the primary day voting in some states.  Watercolor pencil - March 2016.  My kitty trying to hide from me!  LOL