A detail from the painting "Lola", includes a playful hint of a color placement strategy.
Painting Historic
Wheeling Weekend
I worked on this class demonstration in watercolor and tempera 17 x 22. Six of my students also did various downtown Wheeling scenes in WV. I wish you could see their results.
My painting drips indicate the paper was at an angle. This was done purposely to let the direction flow down with the light source from the upper left. The sky was filled in first to attempt the thrill of the dramatic clouds before continuing the rest of the scene.
Beach Bum
I was invited by the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society to do a demo. This was special, being that I grew up in Western New York by the lake (Silver Creek), and it was good to be back home. So for the demonstration I chose a dockscape. The group asked many questions so I had to save the finishing sky wash for later.
This preliminary exercise shows my demonstration for a watercolor workshop at Touchstone Center for Crafts.
A grease pencil on location sketch was done on a 8x10 plexi-glass. It became my study for the
larger painting on paper.