Lost Boys Kite

  

                                   Watercolor and gauche on 5 x 6.9 inch 140 lb Arteza paper.

This watercolor experiment was inspired by the kite the boys send Max in The Lost Boys (1987).  I made it for my boyfriend to remember our first kiss.  Here is a pic of the kite from the movie!

Buffalo Moon

 

 

                                  Watercolor on 9x12 Arches 100% cotton paper. 

I made this watercolor experiment for a friend who loves buffalos.

Nightfall at Collinwood

 

                                 Watercolor 6"x9"

I made a Dark Shadows themed card to celebrate my child's fourteenth birthday.

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Collinwood in the year 2020, where Barnabas and Julia, escaping from Parallel Time, have found themselves in the future.  To their horror, they have discovered the great house in ruins and the family mysteriously vanished without a trace.  

 

The Retiree

  

                            Watercolor on 8"x10"

I painted this to celebrate my dad's retirement on Friday, July 13, 2018.  I reinterpreted the Rider-Waite Tarot card The Magician, using symbols and imagery to represent my dad.

Sunscape

 

"Sunscape," watercolor, 8.5x5.5

This was just a quick little watercolor experiment I did when I got my new watercolor set. 

Beach Scene

 

"Beach Scene," watercolor on 12 x 9 140 lb paper

I wanted to create an abstract landscape.  

My main focus in this painting was sky- I wanted to give the sky a great deal of depth and interest.  I used wet-on-wet for an underpainting, interweaving blues, violets, reds, oranges and yellows.  After this layer dried, I went over it in two layers of dark blue, then added table salt, as well as rock salt to allow the broken colors to shine through.

For the ocean, I mixed greens and blues, painting wet-on wet to give the impression of waves.

The hill was originally a cadmium lemon.  This created imbalance in the painting, so I neutralized the hill and also gave it more interest by layering a deep blue-violet over the yellow.  I added more salt to give the sand some texture.

Overall, I'm happy with how the painting turned out.  Next time I work a beach scene, I might abstract it further by using cleaner geometric shapes and a simpler color scheme. 

Pond at Dawn

  

"Pond at Dawn," watercolor on  9x6 140 lb paper

This is a wet-on-wet abstract piece; it was a lot of fun to make.