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...