tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84235506908414611842024-03-13T12:25:00.425-04:00Musings About WatercolorRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-49826955373869552582013-10-10T13:27:00.002-04:002013-10-10T13:30:05.506-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Hat</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13 7/8" x 11 1/8" - watercolor</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bluebirds have been a delight at our feeders this winter. I was able to capture this male waiting to indulge. I loved working on this scene. It takes a little figuring out to have both a foreground and a background show in a 2-dimensional "contrast". I achieved that by putting the bg "wet on wet". But first I blocked out the bird and the foreground branches. When the wet on wet was totally dry, I removed the mask-it and painted the details of the resting bluebird and the branches. I love this result.</span>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-6742832468087316002011-10-13T21:38:00.000-04:002012-08-31T20:45:58.874-04:00"Two Sails at Sunset"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Two Sails at Sunset"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Even though this looks simple, it wasn't. Half way through I almost gave up because this had some really hard parts, but then told myself that if I didn't press on, I would never finish anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm so happy with it now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Tina is the new owner.</span></div>
Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-20212139172069782372011-02-16T00:15:00.009-05:002011-02-21T14:38:44.556-05:00"Two Friends - Melded Shadow"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lfr-fAS9re4/TWK_CW5fkMI/AAAAAAAAA7o/Bz8XEXU6jUM/s1600/CityScape-Romania-Two+Girls-Melded+Shadow+e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lfr-fAS9re4/TWK_CW5fkMI/AAAAAAAAA7o/Bz8XEXU6jUM/s320/CityScape-Romania-Two+Girls-Melded+Shadow+e.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another (the limit is 3) in the series for Romania, for the February <a href="http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/">Virtual Paintout</a>. I loved the flippy skirt, the "purses", the beautiful hair styles, the shadow, the movement in this scene on Strada Talazului, in Costinesti. If you'd want to see this on Google go <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&source=embed&ll=43.958225,28.639297&spn=0,0.54657&z=11&layer=c&cbll=43.958672,28.638907&panoid=COEE6-qT05aD343eATEpWQ&cbp=12,75.74,,1,13.19">here</a>. It may take a few seconds to bring up the Google map, so be patient. You can see how I adapted the actual scene to this composition.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is 10 3/8" x 14 1/4".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Technique Tip: This is all about shadows and shading. Shadows are cast by some sort of light source. These have hard edges when one paints or draws. Shading is the "shadow/dark" on a form, be it a leg, a pear, a nose, a body that gives form to the object. These are blended.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">That is a major consideration when rendering.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">On this piece, there are quite a few shadows. First the major one CAST by the girls. Also more cast shadows are CAST by the flippy skirt across the legs-these have hard edges.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">The legs themselves to have form and shape have BLENDED shadows so they look rounded-no hard edges within the shape from dark to light. There are quite a few more instances in this, but this gives you the idea.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan;">"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." ~Leo Buscaglia</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OXeyXV3XM2Q/TVveWRYhBvI/AAAAAAAAA7A/vhRKAKKsYVI/s1600/Two+Friends-Melded+Shadow+pre+finish+e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OXeyXV3XM2Q/TVveWRYhBvI/AAAAAAAAA7A/vhRKAKKsYVI/s320/Two+Friends-Melded+Shadow+pre+finish+e.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Beginning stage as I started to lay in the flesh tones. I used salt to get the texture in the roadway. Grassy/dirt area running alongside roadway, I used wet color in wet to make the blends and free patterns.</div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-65438812848254574682011-01-17T14:27:00.001-05:002011-01-17T14:33:24.124-05:00"Sand Cakes"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TTSXJtlOuUI/AAAAAAAAA4k/KXA4djrBaTo/s1600/Hats-Sand+Cakes+e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TTSXJtlOuUI/AAAAAAAAA4k/KXA4djrBaTo/s320/Hats-Sand+Cakes+e.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Another striped hat. <br />
Learned a lot about how to make the beach look rolling and full of sea stuff. Also learned more about making tubular shapes just that by using darks and lights. Employed the technique of adding "sand" color under the water at the front edge of it, to make the water clear and transparent. </div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-67505472986374320212010-11-28T20:32:00.006-05:002010-11-29T11:34:27.520-05:00"Ipanema-And When She Goes Walking...She Takes Her Dog and Water Bottle, too"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TPL6ZbGiZiI/AAAAAAAAA2E/YqjhXbRHRVQ/s1600/Beach-Ipanema-And+When+She+Goes+Walking...+She+Takes+Her+Dog+%2526+Water+Bottle+too+e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" ox="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TPL6ZbGiZiI/AAAAAAAAA2E/YqjhXbRHRVQ/s400/Beach-Ipanema-And+When+She+Goes+Walking...+She+Takes+Her+Dog+%2526+Water+Bottle+too+e.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you get the song out of your head, now? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A scene from Google Street View for the November <a href="http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/">Virtual Paintout</a> challenge. I found these three on the beaches of Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. The wide sidewalks, neat and clean, are eyecatching not only because they are wide, but patterned intriguingly. Imagine walking on these. When my husband first saw this, his comment was, "Muscle Beach", from his seeing this design in CA, USA. Will have to see if Google gets this close to Muscle Beach, just south of Los Angeles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I was attracted to the girl walking her dog when suddenly I spied the dog carrying the water bottle. That clinched it for one of my selections. (Click on pic to enlarge it to see what I mean, really funny.) On another stretch, I was attracted to this buff young man. So, I put them into one composition. I liked the contrast of dark against light.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: Verdana;">Technique Tip: I put the wastebaskets in this comp because they are representative of the placing of these all along this mile after mile stretch of public beach area (which makes for the tidy beach), and they were red. I wanted to use them to make a third red area along with the red leash and the itty-bitty red swim suit. One good color technique/composition-wise: always have an odd number of places for any color used (other than 1, that is). Also another tech.tip, odd number of objects/things: i.e.: man, woman, dog, bird, wastebaskets (considered one unit).</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them." ~Phil Pastoret</span></div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-26645468879166212392010-10-25T17:09:00.003-04:002010-10-28T17:49:01.976-04:00"Body Language" San Miguel de Allende, Mexico<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TMnvsCc3U6I/AAAAAAAAAyY/fon6Xjb1oNA/s1600/CityScape-San+Miguel+de+Allende-MX-Body+Language-900+e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" nx="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TMnvsCc3U6I/AAAAAAAAAyY/fon6Xjb1oNA/s320/CityScape-San+Miguel+de+Allende-MX-Body+Language-900+e.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico is the <a href="http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/">Virtual Paintout</a> location for the month of October. Some of the features of this city which is a magnet for artists of all persuasions are the cobblestoned streets, the many textured and colored buildings lining skinny streets, the abundant draping climbing plants, and the plethora of steeples of the many churches thruout the city.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I chose this scene because I thought the language of each of the bodies told a story. This is a friendly group, all interested in the conversation going on between the worker and the woman in pink and black. Obviously, whatever he has to offer about the pile of dirt he is working with will impact each of them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">With the diagonal line across the scene, all the textures are made known to the viewer as the eyes travel along the sidewalk into the middle of the discussion. I love the play of the light and shadows thruout as it comes across the wall. Adds to the interest of the scene. Therein lies the techniques used.</span><br />
<span class="indquote_link"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;">~ </span><span style="color: cyan;">"Never fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere."</span></span></span>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-43203753403125531652010-09-07T09:44:00.019-04:002013-10-10T13:19:24.510-04:00EYE MAGNET-"Dots, Stripes, and Baby" in "The Artist's Magazine". If you scroll down, see the magazine article at the end.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>October</strong> issue of <strong>"The Artist's Magazine"</strong> contained this critique </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">under the feature, <em>Art Clinic</em>, critiqued by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">artist, Greg Albert, who "saw" so many pertinent and positive things. And, his suggestions for improvement were right on the money. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">When reading Greg A.'s critiques, one learns the fine points of HOW to critique, (describing all good artistic techniques first, then following up with suggestions for improvement.) There's a lot to learn by paying attention to this kind of critique. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">(Click on the page below to enlarge to read. Then, if needed, do, Ctrl+) Very astute critique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, did I learn anything from this critique? Actually, quite a bit and a very important technique. What Greg Albert zeroed in on is important to the painting. I enjoyed reading his verbalization of what I was portraying. Very intensive and comprehensive critique. I love the way he uses an actual painting to "teach". </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I especially learned that when reviewing and analyzing one's painting one last time, to look for places and edges of confusion as one scans over all. I totally missed the areas he pointed out and will rectify those areas in the near future. Like he said they are easily fixed in this painting. Just should be done to carry it to the next level. </span></div>
<img height="96" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TIfhPmpMo6I/AAAAAAAAAxM/b6UXJlYzZ4s/s320/Dots+Stripes+and+Baby+Critique+by+Greg+Albert+jpeg.jpg" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 368px; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 592px;" width="66" />Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-50323159597618895962010-08-23T22:40:00.026-04:002010-08-31T20:01:33.060-04:00"Sun-kissed and Wind-blown Lupines and Laundry, PEI"<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/THa3PZ2D3RI/AAAAAAAAAw0/lBSnVL4G2DE/s1600/LScape-Sun-kissed+Lupines+%26+Windblown+Laundry-PEI+1000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/THa3PZ2D3RI/AAAAAAAAAw0/lBSnVL4G2DE/s320/LScape-Sun-kissed+Lupines+%26+Windblown+Laundry-PEI+1000.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One surprising phenomenon on PEI is the surprising red red earth. After the spring plowing for potatoes (one of their largest exports to such fast-food restaurants as Wendys, BurgerKing, etc.-mucho French fries), the fields are exposed in red. This is such an impact that the souvenir stores sell T-shirts with the red earth emblem on them. Also you can buy a bag of Red Earth there, too. On PEI there are many potato fields and farms. This scene is just before spring plowing when the multi-colored lupines that grow along the roadsides in profusion are at their most brilliant. They grow stalwart and soldier-like in bunches of color. A wild delight for the eyes as one travels the country side of PEI. Check out <u>Miss Rumphius</u> by Barbara Cooney for a cute story about perpetuating lupines....</span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, look at that! Clothes hung outside on the line. Don't see that too often in our current fast-paced age.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Verdana;">Technique Tip: I underglazed the green field with a warm (Gam.) and a cool (AY) yellow. Warm in foreground field; cool in back half. This is an artist's technique that helps to create more visual depth in 2-dimensional (flat sheet) art since cool recedes and warm colors bring forward.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Verdana;">When I first "finished" this, I had too much empty middle ground. Not happy with the empty middle space, I added some more foliage behind the lupines and design that casually points to the center of interest as well as cutting down on too much middle space and giving the lupines more anchor in the foreground. Another technique used in composition. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Verdana;">The beginning project without the above changes can be seen on <a href="http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/">Virtual Paintout</a>. Go there and you can compare what happens when the artist reevaluates a piece.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Verdana;">Each artist submitting to this challenge chooses a Google street scene that appeals to them. It's a great challenge and fun to see what the participant's "discover" and make into a finished project..</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Drinking nature is an unquenchable thirst." ~Berri Clove</span></div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-6814457626424439412010-08-03T11:29:00.003-04:002010-08-22T23:35:04.464-04:00"Dappled"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TFg0MihSWNI/AAAAAAAAAtM/isZm5CMreCw/s1600/Equine-Dappled+e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" bx="true" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TFg0MihSWNI/AAAAAAAAAtM/isZm5CMreCw/s400/Equine-Dappled+e.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The gray mare with some spots. Horses are so fun to paint. They just look like they want to talk to you. Their eyes are what make them so sensitively expressive.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana;">Technique Tip: Using a darker background gives the values needed to make the horse the center of attention. And using complementary colors as in the gray of the horse and the yellow brown of the mane finishes the contrast. In the background color are all the colors of the mare, but in deeper color and different amounts of each color. This makes for cohesiveness overall.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire." ~Sharon Ralls Lemon</span></div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-67085888009149993072010-07-24T19:54:00.003-04:002010-08-22T23:37:13.843-04:00The Baby Llama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TEt0FepUIZI/AAAAAAAAAs0/NJXux6QKI44/s1600/Animals-The+Baby+Llama+e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TEt0FepUIZI/AAAAAAAAAs0/NJXux6QKI44/s320/Animals-The+Baby+Llama+e.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Llamas are interesting animals. Native to South America, they are used as beast of burdens and for their meat. They actually can be a pet since they mostly have easygoing dispositions, but mostly they are raised for their wool which is very soft and expensive. Domesticated here, there are some llama stables right here in NH and many thruout the US. The dark value of the flower pods give good contrast to the focal point. This adorable baby llama is showing his curiosity as he looks at us from his side of the fence.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana;">Technique tips: Using colors in background and surrounding the baby that are complementary to his body color puts him as the center of interest. Also I used odd number of flower pods on either side of him. Odd numbers always challenge the eye and mind more than the even number which can be boring and tire the mind easily.</span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." ~Eleanor Roosevelt</span>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-56203491842180490072010-06-21T19:29:00.002-04:002010-06-22T19:04:12.902-04:00"My Kind of Beach Day"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TB_xZA-38eI/AAAAAAAAAo4/puF0H-c6pBw/s1600/Ala+Moana+Park+Dr,+Honolulu,+HI,-benches+at+beach+painting+e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/TB_xZA-38eI/AAAAAAAAAo4/puF0H-c6pBw/s320/Ala+Moana+Park+Dr,+Honolulu,+HI,-benches+at+beach+painting+e.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Isn't this the ideal beach at which to spend the afternoon? Having the water and the beach all to oneself. Or just enjoying the slight breeze sitting on a bench in the shade. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">A <a href="http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/">Virtual Paintout</a> painting for the June Hawaii month. It was fun taking some virtual trips thruout the islands. Probably the only way I'll ever get to see them. Lots of water scenes and tropical foliage. I particularly liked the shape of these trees. Not sure what they are.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana;">Technique Tip: In a scene, using a cool and a warm pigment of same hue gives good contrast and punch. In this I used WinsorNewton Blue/grn and WN Ultramarine. One cooler than the other.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-25028296461470629642010-04-24T16:55:00.002-04:002010-05-23T14:13:24.858-04:00"Foxglove in the Scottish Mist"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a fun flower to paint. All the "bells" with all their shadings each took time to analyze, but fun to make them all look like 3-D vessels.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/S9NY8kespjI/AAAAAAAAAkk/9B0ohHM-np8/s1600/Flora-Foxglove+in+the+Scottish+Mist+e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/S9NY8kespjI/AAAAAAAAAkk/9B0ohHM-np8/s200/Flora-Foxglove+in+the+Scottish+Mist+e.jpg" tt="true" width="97" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Technique Tip: Need to use the shading for a cone for each flower. If one is not sure how that is executed, one has to go back to basic drawing and shading techniques. Google that to get direction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: cyan;">"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." ~Author Unknown</span></span>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-76714939620385550782010-04-17T20:56:00.003-04:002010-05-23T08:47:18.109-04:00"Safe Haven with a View"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/S8pWznp9VEI/AAAAAAAAAkU/ewur2X9YIMs/s1600/Flyers-Safe+Haven+with+a+View+22++1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/S8pWznp9VEI/AAAAAAAAAkU/ewur2X9YIMs/s200/Flyers-Safe+Haven+with+a+View+22++1.jpg" width="112" wt="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This little guy knew exactly where to go to people watch and be safe as well. This fancy cutout is on a balustrade of a bridge in a town in Italy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Technique Tip: I used salt and stippling to get the texture of the cement.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~William Jame</span></div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-48072553259632478072010-01-30T15:02:00.013-05:002010-06-13T10:14:20.597-04:00"Water Doodle"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/S2SN_i2Lu7I/AAAAAAAAAaQ/a1n5l7MEjg0/s1600-h/Toby+on+run+in+pool+of+water+w-another+doodle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/S2SN_i2Lu7I/AAAAAAAAAaQ/a1n5l7MEjg0/s320/Toby+on+run+in+pool+of+water+w-another+doodle.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dog in the middle of this scene is our 4-year-old Golden Doodle enjoying the swampy water along with his "buddies", another Doodle and a beagle who go with him and their handler once a week, every week-rain, shine, snow-on a 5-hour off-leash w/6-7 others and run thru the woodlands, fields, orchards of Hollis, NH. Rebecca takes digital videos thruout the hours, posts them on one of the photo sites like Shutterfly, and sends the link to the dog owners each time. How cool is that! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Do not fear- only believe. All things are possible to him that believes." ~Jesus Christ.</span></div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-55750970760304410032009-11-11T16:58:00.009-05:002009-12-13T11:55:11.015-05:00<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tis Thanksgiving time. Most of the pumpkins in the NH area are harvested and sitting in the markets ready to be selected for the pumpkin pies, bread, etc. We have so much to be thankful for just by living in this country. Let's hope we all remain strong and keep the freedom that so many have lost their lives for defending from those who would oppress.</span><br />
</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/Svsz640LfII/AAAAAAAAAUg/Ee2AYlu7UaI/s1600-h/Food-Pumpkin+Pile+left+half+e.jpg" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402969264737713282" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/Svsz640LfII/AAAAAAAAAUg/Ee2AYlu7UaI/s200/Food-Pumpkin+Pile+left+half+e.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Remember to thank God for all as you sit around the happy and bountiful Thanksgiving table where just prior the smells of turkey and pie were tantalizing.</span><br />
</div></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #ffff66;">Technique Tip: In this painting I used complementary colors of cad scar & UB. The background being strong and dark gives the shape and form for these objects. The varying shades of CS mold the round pumpkins. Use of highlights molds as well. Using AY first as an underpainting before CS was applied, then after the CS was dry, rubbing out the highlights makes them sparkle because the yellow being a staining pigment, does not rub out.</span> </span><br />
</div></div><span style="color: #33ffff; font-family: Verdana;">"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." ~Edwin Arlington Robinson</span>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-21070997768680530752009-09-16T09:42:00.021-04:002010-02-07T14:33:23.919-05:00"Colors for the Palate" & "Ready to Eat Truffle"<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SrZY_7NMlgI/AAAAAAAAAPU/ejxBtwHGuhs/s1600-h/Food-Colors+for+the+Palate+3+e.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383588259816052226" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SrZY_7NMlgI/AAAAAAAAAPU/ejxBtwHGuhs/s200/Food-Colors+for+the+Palate+3+e.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a> <br />
<div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SrDry1_71NI/AAAAAAAAAO8/7LxcDO_FF2M/s1600-h/Food-Ready+to+Eat+Truffle+e.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382060813428970706" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SrDry1_71NI/AAAAAAAAAO8/7LxcDO_FF2M/s200/Food-Ready+to+Eat+Truffle+e.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> When this cupcake became the latest challenge of DSFDF, <a href="http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/,%20I">http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/,%20I</a> I decided it would be the perfect companion for the "truffle" I had rendered earlier. I think next could come a slice or slices of cherry pie, or apple, or blueberry? Wonder if this is how elementary Wayne Thiebaud started? Did you notice in the video that WT is a slender man, AND he "digests" all those desserts he creates (Obvious, not literally).</span></div><div><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: verdana;">Technique Tip: To make straight <u>lines</u>, use a T-square (they come in all sizes-from easy to handle convenient 12" small for small drawings to gigantic 60" for carpenter & huge works of art, and so on). First, line up the edge of the watercolor paper to edge of board (I use a see-thru acrylic used in picture frames), tape into position, then all lines drawn will be square with each other and the edges of w/c. I even line up the tape so my 1/4" white edge is also even. To make straight <u>edges</u>, use a good masking tape along w/T-square. I use "DUCK" red-<span style="font-size: 85%;">see inside the roll</span>. <span style="font-size: 85%;">(Best there is-holds tight-easy removal w/o tearing if you pull the tape away from painting. Actually, I use this tape for taping w/c paper down, too.) </span>Each of the squares taped on all 4 sides was done separately AND, not near adjacent still-damp ones.</span></div><div><span style="color: #33ffff; font-family: verdana;">♥ "There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult, done." ~James Hudson Taylor </span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"> (CforP: 10 3/4 x 7 3/8"; TtoET: 11 x 7 1/4")</span></div></div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-58874303844629206942009-09-12T21:44:00.009-04:002010-02-07T14:34:00.525-05:00"The Striped Hat"<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SqxO4aZjI1I/AAAAAAAAAOk/oB3mkx9G3yk/s1600-h/Beach-Maura+s+Hat+e.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380762385867023186" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SqxO4aZjI1I/AAAAAAAAAOk/oB3mkx9G3yk/s400/Beach-Maura+s+Hat+e.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 307px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: verdana;">This could be any little girl with a brilliantly-colored hat, red hair & pouty lips, being a stand-out on the beach. Bet she lives up to her name and red hair. Feisty, but oh so cute. .</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: verdana;">Technique Tips: Using the same color blue wisely thruout gives continuity to the scene. Also making one color cover majority of area of painting is another wise technique</span><br />
<span style="color: #33ffff; font-family: verdana;"><em>♥ "God is the perfect poet." ~Robert Browning</em><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(16 1/4 x 13 3/4")</span></span></span>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-63075155744893405112009-09-12T20:59:00.011-04:002011-12-20T17:23:08.087-05:00"The Yellow Tulips"<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SqxJj51fz3I/AAAAAAAAAOc/xlPfOX_4nQE/s1600-h/Flora-The+Yellow+Tulips+e.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380756535970353010" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SqxJj51fz3I/AAAAAAAAAOc/xlPfOX_4nQE/s400/Flora-The+Yellow+Tulips+e.jpg" style="cursor: hand; height: 344px; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">These yellow tulips look so good against their complement. One of my favorite windowed renderings. This was on display at SNHMedical Center Cafe and I'm so happy that it found its home with Mary Ann Bettilyon from Hollis, NH.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: verdana;">Technique Tips: First of all one should have a definite light source. This one coming from top, right. Resulting highlights and opposing shadows give the bulbous form to each flower. Notice that the flower cups overlap, but not in a regular fashion. This keeps the connection between them & interesting positions. The poured background is fun to manipulate and direct. Makes the artist feel like a director of a magnificent orchestra. In this one I <u>purposely created and then used</u> the dreaded watercolor "blooms" to give special texture. R...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #33ffff;"><em>♥ "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame." ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning</em></span><span style="color: white;"> (19 1/8 x 16")</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-3336790732626796722009-09-03T15:34:00.028-04:002010-02-07T14:35:09.307-05:00"Heber Valley, UT from RR" & "The Old Barn, Heber Valley, Utah"<span style="color: black;"></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SqAbNGR3TSI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/X1bG6PWWN-c/s1600-h/LScape-Heber+Valley+UT+from+RR+2+e.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377327866918161698" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SqAbNGR3TSI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/X1bG6PWWN-c/s400/LScape-Heber+Valley+UT+from+RR+2+e.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 180px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 255px;" /></a><br />
<div align="right"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SqAas3hKp9I/AAAAAAAAAOI/GVHVtHbcvp8/s1600-h/LScape-The+Old+Barn-Heber+Valley,+UT+e.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377327313199998930" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SqAas3hKp9I/AAAAAAAAAOI/GVHVtHbcvp8/s400/LScape-The+Old+Barn-Heber+Valley,+UT+e.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 253px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 332px;" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Interesting to compare these two paintings of the same subject by the same artist in the same medium. Both were painted using the original photo for reference. The only thing not the same is the time in which they were painted and the pigments used in each. Wonder if it's possible to paint the same scene exactly the second time?</span><span style="color: #ffff66;"></span><br />
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tecnique Tip: The center of interest & focus in each is of course the barn. It is in the lower left quadrant, not in middle either vertically or horizontally.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><em><span style="color: #33ffff;">♥ "No one or thing ever stood out for being the same."</span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Top(10 3/4 x 7 1/2"); -Bottom(14 1/2 x 10 1/2")</span> </span></span>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-1688538000888706962009-08-28T18:50:00.032-04:002010-02-07T14:35:47.635-05:00"Same Mood, Different Media"<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SphgJn_DSWI/AAAAAAAAAOA/VXaH6GEjkR8/s1600-h/Oils-The+Arabians+jpg+e.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375151873735215458" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SphgJn_DSWI/AAAAAAAAAOA/VXaH6GEjkR8/s400/Oils-The+Arabians+jpg+e.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 312px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a> <br />
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The oil on left is one of two of these that I did 20 years ago. The watercolor on right was just rendered recently. I love the ownership/love connection between the mother and foal: The mother for the foal. The foal for the mother. It rings loud and clear whether in oils or w/c. Interesting the different color choices give a slightly different presentation, but the two stay connected in each.</span></div><div><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: Verdana;">Technique Tip: Choose subjects that will evoke some emotion when they are viewed. Remember that you, the artist, are a viewer also and can let the "mood" wash over you as you paint. R...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="color: #33ffff; font-family: verdana;"><em>♥ "A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it." ~Frank A. Clark</em></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Left OIL: (16 x 20") in private collection; Right w/c: (10 3/4 x 14 1/4")</span></div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-27389396181416720412009-08-12T22:42:00.013-04:002010-02-07T14:39:19.300-05:00"San Francisco Tradition"-DSFDF<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SoN91kBgQgI/AAAAAAAAANA/xm_xTLlgGXY/s1600-h/SanFrancisco+Tradition.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369273539912286722" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SoN91kBgQgI/AAAAAAAAANA/xm_xTLlgGXY/s400/SanFrancisco+Tradition.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 186px;" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a real challenge in perspective. Not only do the perspective lines have to be correct, different value intensity and sharpness or less sharpness has to be used to show close up and distance, too. </span><br />
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Which of the perspectives does this exemplify? 1-, 2-, 3- pt?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then trying to figure out the buildings is another hefty thought process. Not an easy project.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I added the trolley car to the scene because I wanted to make it specifically a SanFrancisco street. Alcatraz may be at the end of the street and across the bay, but too far away to be a player in this street scene.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: verdana;">Technique Tip: Use color to draw the eye thru the composition. First the bright oranges give direction for the eye to follow into the scene across the rooftops of the buildings to the end of the street, dance around and enjoy the clouds, then the green trees bring you back to the trolley car to enjoy that neat feature of SF. Note, too, that any color used has been used in at least three other areas thruout. All good techniques. R...</span></div><div><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="color: #33ffff;"><em><span style="font-family: verdana;">♥ "In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." ~Longfellow</span></em></span></div><div><span style="color: #33ffff;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: white;">(5 7/8 x 13")</span> </span></span></div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-42987792068874390182009-08-10T12:50:00.013-04:002009-09-20T12:49:00.280-04:00"San Diego at Night"<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SoBSG6LaNNI/AAAAAAAAAM0/GXupjIIO5zc/s1600-h/LScape-San+Diego+at+Night+e.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 169px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 287px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368381034475435218" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SoBSG6LaNNI/AAAAAAAAAM0/GXupjIIO5zc/s400/LScape-San+Diego+at+Night+e.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;">From a photo taken by our special dear friend, photographer, and fellow traveler at the beginning of our Panama Canal Cruise, Susan Clark. No other words are necessary, the beauty of this scene says it all. </span><div></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ffff66;">Technique Tip: Angular planes and verticals intersecting make for interesting composition. Be sure the perspective is accurate and well drawn. If not sure what that means, take some lessons on one-, two-, three- point perspective.<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#33ffff;"><em>♥ "The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do." Orison Swett Marden</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ffffff;">(9 1/4 x 14") Owned by Alisa & Todd, San Diego, CA</span></div>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06156307122420399897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423550690841461184.post-24262018240895261902009-08-01T00:40:00.009-04:002009-09-12T17:57:05.148-04:00"What About Me?"<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SnPHaYHfezI/AAAAAAAAAMA/liZOgESLJo8/s1600-h/Beach-What+About+Me,+Mikki+e.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 292px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364850837092793138" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GlwFrC-lzNk/SnPHaYHfezI/AAAAAAAAAMA/liZOgESLJo8/s400/Beach-What+About+Me,+Mikki+e.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Since the 31st was a 16th birthday of this little girl, I had to get this rendering in. Time passes so swiftly. First, I have her captured as a baby in dots and stripes and pattern and was so inspired by that pose that that rendering is my signature piece and you find it in the heading of this blog. This rendering standing landside of the waves, she is about 3 years old. Just at the age to want to be noticed. When her dad was taking her mother's photo, she stood as such w/little tummy sticking way out, and said, "What about me?" (reason for title). Luckily her dad was swift enough to press the shutter once more and capture this moment in time. I fell in love with her polite sassiness and can just feel that love each time I look at this rendering. Needless to say that both these renderings are in "this artist's private collection." I loved the painting process of both poses. </span><div><span style="font-family:verdana;">Now, I'll have to find one that inspires a 16 year pose. She is a love, my granddaughter.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ffff66;">TechniqueTip: First, a selection of subject with attitude. Second, to make the texture of the hat, I used salt. The trick here is to sprinkle the salt (table & sea) at the right time which is just as the shininess disappears from the wet color. It's critical to do it at this time. THEN, the second critical part is to be patient and let this totally dry w/o using a hair dryer (this will blow the salt away). Thirdly, do not use good brushes anywhere near the salt. It will destroy them pronto! When dry, brush salt off with fingers or a rubber cement lifter. 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