Eagle Koi

This little watercolor is a 6 inch by 6 inch on gessoed masonite. 50.00 www.dailypainters.com for pay pal information.






For the last several weeks I’ve been painting with Acrylic paint…and this is such a change from watercolor for several reasons. The biggest is… 1. The thought process. When painting in watercolor you think in a way that the values go from light to dark and in acrylics it seems you go from dark to light. The other thing is the 2. thickness of the paint, In watercolor the paint moves and there is a constant merging of color that takes place. I’ve learned to use this in my style and it isn’t as easily to achieve in acrylics unless you change the thickness of the paint. Finally the bigggest thing about the difference is the finished look. # 3. Watercolor drys back a bit lighter but Acrylic paint seem to dry back a bit darker. This has been a struggle for me as I already paint with lots of pure pigment and like the dark values in watercolor. I’m slightly disappointed in the darker values in the acrylic paintings. They seem a bit flat and not so complex in their nature. I like to see a lot of variation in the value especially in the darks and what I see is just flat dark color, the nuances are not there. I’ ll experiment with this a bit more and see how I can adjust my painting to get that variation that give my work its voice.

Evening pond

This painting is on gessoed masonite and is 6 inches by 6 inches. The koi are painted in watercolor.

The temperature today was very warm, about 80 degrees and I took the opportunity to clean my back porch and potted some flowers, oh yeah and some seeds.

I threw away two BIG garbage bags of trash, junk that was sitting outside all winter and stuff that just didn't hold up to the weather. It all needed to be thrown away. Lots of dog toys, leaves and and old broken crockery. It looks better and now I just have to dig up the dirt and re pot the rest of the pots so this summer we have a whole summer of flowering plants. I planted two really large elephant ears, I love their tropical look and usually plant one or two each year. I also planted morning glories and hollyhocks which are both some of my favorite flowers.

I really wanted to get back to my larger paintings, I'm painting several commissions right now and I would like to get them finished because I'd like to paint something for myself. When I'm really working hard outside I do enjoy it but I am thinking of my painting the whole time and what it needs and when I get back to it, what I'll change. I think most artist do this. Often I'll dream about a painting and this drives me to get it finished. It 's like reading a good book and you can't wait to get back to it to see how it ends!

Koi Rising

6 by 8 watercolor on gessoed paper. I think that this little guy is getting ready to surface and is heading up to get a snack.

"Ambiance" a Koi painting

5 by 7 watercolor on canvas.

I am not feeling well today and spend most of the day in bed. I have a migraine which I sometimes get but I hope to wake up tomorrow and it will be gone.

Golden boy Koi

6 by 6 wood panel painted in watercolor with fixative to aid in the protection. No need to frame. SOLD

I just received some silver and gold watercolor paint as a present and had to try them.. Usually I don't purchase iridescence colors or Pearl colors because its difficult enough to learn all the behaviors of paint... then add in the shiney element and it can get tricky. The gold doesn't actually show up in the photo and here it appears as a mid tone. It's nice but I have to figure out a way to incorporate it into the other colors,