Sun’s Up Sky’s Bright

Sun’s Up Sky’s Bright   Watercolor 20x27

A barn painted in Watercolor: After struggling and experimenting with acrylic during 2012, it is a joy to get back to my old friend-watercolor. I was not sure there were any more barns in me. Glad to know I found this one. Because it has been a while since I did watercolor, I choose a familiar topic to refresh my skills, with good results I think - and my sister thinks so too. It is freshly painted, with good value contrast, colors that bounce off each other and a bit of texture to entertain. The sky came about because I was looking at some Vincent Van Gogh works-specifically his skies above the wheat fields… light hearted, fun skies…………………

Rooty Toot

Rooty Toot       acrylic  and collage               18x18

Landscape abstract: complete with paper collage, ink, string, transparent washes, hand-made stamps and more. The top area behind the trees was fairly dark in value. It sat for a while in my studio for a month or more. Finally, after looking at it for a month or more, it came to me that the area needed to be light in value. (It is well to listen to the still, small voice)



Barn 124 The Committee and Barn 125 Ruby

Barn 124 The Committee  22x30    watercolor and pencil
The low intensity warm and cool grays of the barns cause the very high intensity of the cows, grass and sky to sing. I like it quite a bit. I have been studying the effect of intensity next to pure color, and reading again the notes form Skip Lawrence’s workshop which I took in the last century…think I am going to work on this intensity idea a bit more.

Barn 125 Ruby    22x30    watercolor and pencil

What to say! This is Ruby I thought the spots on the barn and circles in the sky were nicely repeated in the grass and doorways and Ruby’s roundness. She is fairly bold!

Barn 006

Barn 006           7.5 x 11

Now this one id giving me  an idea for a full sheet.  I like the  cleaner colors better.  more soon

Barn 005

barn 005 a

My intention is to put many of these barns up, however  I was not so pleasde with this one.

 I darkened the sky and  it is tolerable.  More to come 

Barn 005 b