Fall Leaves (After Georgia O'Keeffe). Georgia O'Keeffe's unique artistic vision made her one of the great American oil painters of the twentieth century. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, holds the premier collection of her work. This is where I fell in love with her work!
(by mistake of course, he really wanted to eat a whale)
Watercolors
(on Arches Watercolor paper - 140 lb)
5x7
2014
Meet The Alligator Who Ate A Rainbow. This picture was done for fun and for developing my wet on wet technique. Also trying to learn to use very bright, fun colors.
Plants are naturally intriguing. Without them we humans couldn't exist. They produce the oxygen we need to support our life force. They feed us and they heal us, and often they just plain please us! They have been an inspiration for such wonderful music as Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and for literature like The Lady of Camelia by Alexandre Dumas. Plants have formed gardens both great and small, and many plants have been giving charming popular names, such as the Pansy!
This was a challenging piece for me. The technique is what challenged me. It's called wet on wet. With this particular watercolor technique the artist loses more control of the paint because its movement is truly controlled by the direction of the water. So wet on wet is considered to be a more difficult technique because of this. Its best to just let the water and paint do it's 'magical' thing'!
As you can see, my painting style changed with this painting - and I love it! It is more loose and the colors are more muted than what I usually do. Its a style I think I will continue.
(with a Watercolor Undercoat)
(on Sennelier watercolor paper - 140 lb)
5x7
2014
I have never ever used oil pastels before. I found them to be 'fun'. I first did one gloss of a water color under painting of the flower and then finished it up with oil pastels. They went on easily because of the oil in the pastel piece. They did not make me think of my pastel drawings at all. It was fun.
In Texas we just love our longhorns! Numerous schools throughout Texas use the longhorn as their school mascot, including the University of Texas. The silhouette also evokes the frontier spirit of the Old West. Southwestern decor often uses cattle horns and skulls.
The Hibiscus is native to tropical regions. The first Hibiscus was native to the warm southern part of China. Hibiscus blooms last only one day, regardless of how they are preserved, but their contribution to a centerpiece or bouquet in that limited time in nothing short of spectacular! Their colors are dramatic and usually intense, and the feeling of tropical luxuriance they bring to an interior or garden setting is almost unmatched in the plant world.