The First Churches, Watercolor Study – 2

I ended up doing a little more work on this painting of First Churches. I knew that the drawing had some fatal flaws in it, but I wanted to work on the shadows and the look of it. I messed up the arches as well, but it didn’t really matter for what I was after. [...]

The First Churches, Watercolor Study

This is the First Churches on Main Street in Northampton. It isn’t finished, and may never get completed. I picked this image from a photo, and planned to work on it in Rey Milici’s painting class. Unfortunately the class was canceled on Thursday, so I worked on it a little bit yesterday and tonight. I [...]

Bethesda Fountain, Central Park

There is a bus trip to NYC in the Spring at work and I was asked to make a little flyer to publicize the trip. I looked through some photos that Heather and I took last year and found a nice shot of the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. I decided to try and make [...]

“I don’t know Haymarket…”

I don’t know Haymarket your lattes are getting kind of weak. I think you are going to join the places I don’t get them anymore. The thing is, they’re not cheap, so they should be consistently awesome. You are a coffee joint. All you do upstairs is make coffee. So why not make it good. [...]

Casa del Sol – 2 New Watercolor Sketches

Here are the watercolor paintings I did on the paper that I stretched in my watercolor class on the 22nd. They were done fairly quickly as I was experimenting with a new brush I got – a #6 Rigger. I quickly realized that it is meant for larger areas than these paintings. Still, it is [...]

Watercolor Class

Today I had my first watercolor class taught by Rey Milici. There are about 10 students and he circulates and gives pointers here and there. I learned how to properly stretch watercolor paper (see picture above). What I had been doing was completely wrong, and a bit embarrassing. I also learned a little bit about [...]

Main Street Northampton Watercolor – 2

I was just trying to keep it simple and clean, especially the storefronts and the windows, but then kind of got messed up by the cars. Now I have something to work on – the cars. This is a little less jaggy than the other one i did recently, but still not clean enough for [...]

Watercolor Sketch – Casa del Sol #11

I did another sketch of Casa del Sol. I was mixing up the paints and came up with a weird grayish brown so I used that even though I was initially planning on doing a bright color. The sky got over worked because I splashed on way to much pthalo blue and alizarin crimson. I [...]

Main Street Northampton Watercolor Sketch

I didn’t like this after I finished it, but it has grown on me a little bit. It need to figure out a better way to put the building color in around the windows. I don’t want to use mask. I put in the browns of the buildings, then put in the gray masonry and [...]

Main Street Northampton Watercolor

I was doing this thing on the previous Casa del Sol painting with a tiny brush and I like how it looked so I did it more on this painting. I was messing around with the colors and it was little more like my 1997 series. Those paintings are very colorful and whimsical. I kind [...]