VINITA PAPPAS

Here is a link to a nice watercolor demo by artist Vinita Pappas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULe2oWfvigI

One of mine

OLD ART

Finding more and more old pieces. I was on a real tear a couple of years ago!

Big Bear Falls  -  Pastel





                                             Floral  -  Pastel

STARTED

After weeks of procrastination, I started working on my woodblocks last night. Floral subject on ten blocks including the key block.

GOOD AND BAD

I have mentioned in prior posts how I struggle when trying to use watercolors. I have read books, watched DVDs and taken online lessons with very little growth. I can paint with acylics and now pastels and end up with something I like, but watercolors frustrate me to no end. Here is the same subject, a floral, I did both with watercolors and then with pastels. For whatever reason I feel much more freedom with the pastels.

TWO WORLDS

It seems that art is all about a person's comfort zone. I continue to make attempts at watercolor painting and continue to struggle. To compound the issue, I love the floral watercolors that a great friend of mine who lives in the Northwest paints. Combining a technique that I have no mastery of with a subject that I am not really in touch with and, well...

Yet give me a piece of scratchboard, a Jazz subject and twenty minutes and I'm as happy as can be.

FLORAL

I spent some great time with my grandson over the weekend (oh, and my son and his wife too!). I can't get enough of him. Also took some time to shoot some pictures of the many flowers that are opening up with the coming of spring. I've done a few floral paintings using acrylics but really want to jump into the deep end of the pool and try one with watercolors.