More Watercolors...

Here's a couple watercolors I've worked on recently...

This one was more of a learning project than anything. I tried doing a bunch of things I've never tried before in watercolor (like techniques from oil painting), and I'm pretty surprised I didn't turn the colors into mud by the end. I found some of the things I tried didn't work, and some did. I decided to set the painting down before I tried too much on one sheet of paper. I was working from a photograph that a friend took when we were fishing in Valdez. 

This one I did with my local painting buddy Tom Nixon a few weeks ago. It's more of a study of wet into wet. It's a super easy technique. I'm going to be doing more of these here soon...

Ha this is a catch up post...

Hey everyone! I was really busy the past five months or so with school, and preparing for my show, and a bunch of other projects. I've been able to do very little artwork over that time, but hopefully that will change soon. Here's just a couple I've done:

This is a watercolor, and was actually at my First Friday show. I wanted to work with mostly negative space, and I really liked how it turned out (except for a couple little spots, but i can be my own worst critic right?). I'm planning to do a few more like this, leaving the white areas as just suggestive foliage and other things. I really like the effect, and just how soft it is. 

This one was more of a study. I kind of rushed it. It's a Bison grazing on the side of the road in Canada.    I haven't done much wildlife paintings, so i figured I'd give it another shot.

I'm putting this in here because it was quite the little project. I just finished it today! This is a coin collection I've been working on since I was a kid. It has 150 coins from over 25 countries including the French Polynesian Islands, New Zealand, Guatemala, England, Holland, Japan, China, Czechoslovakia, El Salvador and others. I made the coin holders from shelfs of an old jewelry box, hand made the frame, and got the glass custom cut, and painted and stained it to give it an antique finish. I'm still working on the collection by the way, so I'll end up filling the repeated coins with newer ones, and leaving the rest in a box. It was kind of out-of-my-ordinary "art" project, but it was fun and I like how it turned out.

December 7th First Friday

I just recently had my first First Friday, at Tammy Phillips Studio and Gallery. It was a great learning experience, ha and I learned a lot of what not to do (which frames to get, organizing my work into a theme...). I must say there is a learning curve involved in the whole marketing side of it. I haven't been huge into selling or marketing my work until just recently, so everything is new and fun. I'm planning on getting another body of work together soon, and hopefully having some more shows, so we'll see how that goes :P. Thank you everyone who came, and thank you Tammy Phillips for inviting me to show at your gallery in December! It was great!