I’ve been away for awhile, working on starting up a new interior design business with a partner. For that new venture, I’ve had to work on some watercolor renderings of…
Captain Dave Vollenweider of Live to Fish Guide Service caught this huge brook trout in the Pequest River in Warren County, New Jersey after an afternoon of wading, catching and…
A friend and former colleague of mine was originally from Thailand, and when she got married to a wonderful man from Australia, she invited me to her wedding in…
I don’t do many portraits, but am very attracted to peoples’ faces, so plan to do more. Based on a photo taken by my watercolor teacher of an artist’s model…
The great thing about doing a watercolor like this one is that I can define the white magnolias by framing them with green leaves painted using varying values and in…
I added a bit of cast shadow so that this pot and ceramic bunnies didn’t look too much like they were floating in air. I’m not sure how effective the…
This pot of flowers with the two ceramic Easter bunnies is just floating in space just now. I need to finish it off by adding more contouring shadows to the…
This was a study of loading two colors onto your brush and then creating a curved stroke using the entire brush head from tip to full width. The result is…
I added the painted floral design that is on the actual vase in the still life set-up. I think it adds something, perhaps by bringing in the blues in the…
I decided to add a background that would purposely feel out-of-focus, so that one’s eye would be drawn inward, towards the focal point of the vase. It’s debatable whether the…