Watercolor Painting of Wildflowers

This is a painting of some wildflowers I did while on vacation. These look like miniature poppies or buttercups. They grow in the sun next to the road or in open fields.

Watercolor Painting of Wildflowers 

I did a quick sketch and then did a wet wash around the flowers in a very very pale yellow green. After the first wash dried I did a second a little darker and deeper green lower down leaving the upper right as it was. A third and forth wash each darker than before was added, each time going around the flower. I dabbed in some yellows and browns to break up the color a bit.

The yellow of the flower was done in stages starting with the light color and going to the darker more orange and red.

The horizontal leaves were an afterthought. I used a liner brush and clear water with a paper towel to lift out the color, it left a slight stain of green which is OK. I just added the darker green for shadow.

I am mostly happy with it but think it is a little too monochromatic and I should have put in a rock or some thing near the bottom. There is always next time!

Watercolor Of Wilderness Flowers

This is a watercolor painting I did of some flowers in the forest in Maine where we went on vacation. These blossoms grow under the shady trees. They have a star pattern of four petals surrounded by four or six leaves.

Watercolor of Forest Flowers

After a quick sketch I started with a wet drip in technique, where I dab watery color into the wet paper. I used layers this way to try to get the texture of the soil and the look of the leaves. It was hard waiting for the the paint to dry between layers. I used dabbing with the water to give the soft random texture. I tried to balance the cool colors of the greens with the warmer browns of the soil and added some reds and purples to the soil to warm it up a bit.

The flowers were white and I didn't just want to leave them blank so I used a very pale wash of watercolor and drew the shapes with a signature brush on the petals.

 I am very happy with it, it was a pleasant hour of painting.

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Watercolor Sketch of Country Road.

This is a watercolor sketch I did in my spare time. It is of a country road with some trees and fence post beside the road.

I was experimenting with the details of the foreground and trying to get the feel of the leafy foliage and the pinkish purple blossoms. I used a dry brush on the road to give it a rough texture. I didn't use many washes, just in the sky, and the background and a little as the under painting for the trees. I used smaller brushes and liner brushes a lot since I was approaching this as a watercolor sketch; I did some layering so it kinda crossed over into painting.

Watercolor sketch of a Country Road.

The perspective of the road may look a little off but the resource material I was using had some lines that looked a little out of the ordinary.

Watercolor of Fishing Village

This is a simple study of a fishing village on the north east, It is done in water color on a sheet of practice paper.

I have been looking at the photograph for a while thinking I should do a drawing or something. I have been doing a lot of drawings and felt I needed to do a little watercolor before I got too rusty. It would not be my first choice for a watercolor project but it is good to stretch your horizons and work outside of your comfort zones.

Fishing Village in the North. Watercolor by Adron. 

Watercolor can continue to surprise you throughout your lifetime. It has a lot of different moods and voices.

I do a lot of drawing and feel my painting is more of an extension of my drawing. I think I have a hard time getting away from the concept of a picture being made up of lines and having more shape, and color.

I enjoyed painting this and hope you enjoy viewing it.

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Barn Beyond The Meadow

This is a drawing I did in fine tipped marker.

Fine Tipped Marker Sketch of Barn Beyond The Meadow

I spent about four hours on it. I had a photo that I was working from and then embellished it. I wanted to get the texture of the woods behind and have contrast with the areas of the barn and the field. I wanted the barn to have a contrasting texture, and value.


The foreground needed to be darker I should have switched up to a broader point for it.

The composition is lacking. There is a focal point but there is nothing to invite the eye in. There is a sense where the flowers make a barrier to the picture. If I was to do a more serious project like an oil painting I would introduce a path meandering from the foreground and wrapping around behind the barn to draw the eye into the picture.

It was a fun study and great practice in texture technique- maybe I will use this as a study and do a painting of this.


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Quick Sketch While At The Cafe

There is never enough time to do art. So I try to do art wherever or whenever I can force it out of a situation. We were listening to some jazz at a Cafe in Wild Lake MD. and not far from me was a young man who apparently was not into jazz and had fallen asleep.  I pulled out my sketchbook from my coat pocket and a trusty HB pencil and did a quick sketch of him.

I wanted to keep the white of his shirt as a focus feature so after lightly coloring the background I rubbed it smooth with my finger.  His straight black hair was tousled and was fun to sketch. The sketchbook is about 3x5 inches big. I recommend all artist carry one; there are more times I wished I had one on hand to do a quick sketch than I care to remember.

Not too much can be said about practicing the quick sketch.

Quick Sketch In My Pocket Sketchbook Of Boy at Cafe.

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Drawing of Model With An Attitude

This is the wooden pose-able model of the human figure we use for sketching in class. I asked one of my students to give it a casual pose. I think it was more of a saucy attitude. This was a quick sketch and drawn in about 8 minutes. It helps loosen the students up a bit.

Pencil Sketch of Model With an Attitude. 

I drew this with an hb pencil and then finished it with a 4b just to deepen the shadows a bit.

You might thing drawing these models over and over is boring but so is practicing scales for a musician. You know you are getting better and so it is worth it.

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Charcoal Sketch of Creamer and Dogwood Blossoms

I did this sketch for practice but ran out of time. It was of a creamer and a branch with some dogwood blossoms.

I am enjoying the beauty of simple projects these days, one can really get into a composition made of two or three items.

Charcoal Study of Creamer and Dogwood. 

I did a quick pencil sketch and then worked it over with a medium charcoal pencil. I use the blending stub to do the foreground, I liked the different contrast in technique. I tried to keep the creamer underdeveloped and the background solid.

I kept the dogwood white and used negative space to give the blossoms whiteness. The paper was a 50 lb soft surface. I don't really like working with it as much as the 400 series by Strathmore.