ANNE'S WATERCOLOR

Once upon a time (long, long ago) I had a girlfriend who had a talent that I was very unaware of. After a thirty year separation, we reconnected and I now get to enjoy her wonderful art.

Anne Whirledge Karp
Watercolor

PASTELS NORTH AND SOUTH

My Lopez Island friend (Pacific Northwest) sent me a scan of her latest pastel work. She does great watercolors, pastels, lino and woodblock prints. The landscapes and nature around her make wonderful subject matter!

 Below is a pastel I keep thinking is finished and then find myself foolin' with it again!!

SMALL WORLD

My friend from Lopez Island sent me a scan of the latest watercolor she is working on. Subject is strikingly similar to the pastel I am working on right now. Must be telepathy, or the fact that I enjoy her paintings a lot.

NEW TIMES TWO

Watercolor envy raises it's ugly head. My school friend from many years ago sent me a scan of her newest painting. She lives on Lopez island in the Pacific Northwest where she does beautiful watercolor, pastels and photography. I always get pulled into trying another watercolor after seeing her work, but not this time. I finished a pastel I had been working on instead.

A LITTLE MORE ANNE

These watercolors and pastels are some of my favorite things from Anne's art. The two watercolors are not yet on her web site but are really great. It's her pieces like these that keep me trying to do a watercolor every once in a while.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE

Over forty years ago there was a girl in my life that I was engaged to be married to. As often happens when people are young, our lives took different paths and we drifted apart. At first I thought about her a lot, and then time dampened the memory. After thirty some years of absolutely no contact, we reconnected about ten years ago, and have remained close ever since. One of the things that I have learned about her in our new relationship is that she loves art. She also did when I first knew her but, for some reason, I wasn't aware of it. Anne lives with her husband on beautiful Lopez Island in the Pacific Northwest where she has her own studio which was part of a studio tour last Labor Day weekend. It seems funny to me that when we were younger, I thought I was the art person with my photography and painting, never paying attention to the fact that she is pretty damn good herself. She works in pastels and also paints beautiful watercolors just to annoy me, I'm sure.

http://www.annewhirledgekarp.com/