little red bud

7.5 by 5 $ 25.00 Its almost my birthday! one more day...

RED on RED

40.00 6.96 by 6.96

Lavender Roses

I was trying to mix up a color for lavender roses and I mixed up several combinations but I think this Quin red with Manganese blue is pretty close.


This watercolor on gessoed masonite. 4 by 6

Pink roses and buds

8 by 9.5 watercolor on paper $60.00

A painting A day - "Red Roses"

This is painted wet into wet. The background is painted first then allowed to dry. After it is dry, you paint the roses wet into wet. This means you paint one petal at a time and introduce very dry paint into the wet paint ( Say the dark red into the lighter red to form the interior of the rose,) then this is allowed to bleed. You pull out the lights and your done. Its mostly stoke work, another way would be to double load your brush and form the petals with the dark side forming the interior and the light side of the brush forming the edge. You can add leaves or whatever when everything has dried.

Red roses is $40.00 6 inches by 9 inches shantmarie@aol.com