Plein air watercolor landscape painting of a rock garden surrounded by hostas

Plein air watercolor painting   9.5 inches x 7 inches $100

One more watercolor landscape from our latest garden site. It was my last watercolor painting of the day and I had really loosened up on this quick sketch. The only thing I didn’t catch was the little line of water cascading over the rocks…

This artwork was created with:
Paper: Saunders Waterford Watercolor Paper
Medium: DaVinci Watercolors

Plein air watercolor painting of a flower garden against a shaded wall.

Plein air watercolor painting   7 inches x 9.5 inches

This cutting garden looked very dramatic against the shaded house so I thought I’d do a watercolor painting of it. But there was so much detail that I couldn’t capture all of it. I decided to do a loose, freestyle version of what I was seeing. That is an ongoing challenge for me with floral paintings. Include every little bit of foilage and flower, or try to get down the general feeling of the view?

This artwork was created with:
Paper: Saunders Waterford Watercolor Paper
Medium: DaVinci Watercolors

Plein air pastel painting of a bird bath in a spring garden.

Pastel painting 8.5 inches x 11.5 inches

Didn’t have time today for a full painting foray in the big world so I decided to do a pastel landscape right in my own backyard. Our bleeding hearts are in full show and I liked how they looked behind our birdbath. People were cutting grass and sawing wood all around me so this garden painting is much more peaceful than the actual experience of creating it was!

Watercolor painting of begoinias and grass pots on a deck.

Watercolor painting 5 inches x 7 inches $70 + shipping

Please contact me if you are interested in this or similar artwork.

I’m finishing 2 large RiverStone pastels right now and I will probably post them later this weekend. So today I thought I would continue the theme of “Think Summer!”

I sat on my deck in the sun last July with a glass of white wine and painted our flower pots. I like painting small plein air watercolors to keep my skills sharp. The subject matter isn’t always important. I read somewhere that you should be able to make a good painting from ANYTHING. Welllll, I don’t know about THAT….

Just heard today that River Gallery sold 6 giclees prints of my Treescape series. Yahoo!!