Monthly Archives: September 2009

New Results With Watercolor

Just finished a great watercolor workshop with Mark Mehaffey, sponsored by the Southwest Michigan Watercolor Society. What a great three days. This piece is watercolor on Yupo–another way of looking at that combination. My only problem is, I can’t decide … Continue reading

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Follow-up On “Bear Hug”

On 1 August, I posted a piece that I called Bear Hug. It was a mixed acrylic on a half sheet of watercolor paper, that I had collaged and painted over a failed watercolor. Since  that posting I’ve looked at … Continue reading

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More Paint-Along Images

It’s hard to believe how fast the time is flying. Here it’s time for more paint-along studies. This week it’s exercise 2, which has three parts, all designed around variations in shape, with and without contours. First part A. Wow, … Continue reading

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Paint-Along, first post

So far there are three of us participating in the paint along of abstract exercises found in Rolina van Vliet’s book, “Abstract Painting.” I think all three images of the three participating are great. I will be posting them in … Continue reading

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Clifford Revisited

This painting was originally posted about on March 16. Recently I took it out and applied a grayscale to it and found some glaring problems–I guess that’s why I was never satisfied with it. So, I did some more work … Continue reading

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