Yummy Kiwis

More watercolor!!! This time featuring one of my favorite color combinations. I also like the sketchy feeling of it.
I sketched two more big paintings today, the first one went like a breeze, the other one I am still struggling with... It is work work work with those portraits, but I am hoping everything will be worth at the end.

"Kiwis"
9"x6"
22.9cm x 15.2cm
Watercolor on Paper
$110 (Shipping Included)

More Experiments...

I have continued to work with watercolors and I love them because the medium has a different consistency which allows me to work a little quicker. Why is that important? Well, if you have been reading the blog for the past few days you have probably guessed correctly: Thesis.
I have made some progress. Today I finished the sketch of the first out of the ten large paintings I have to complete. However, I do not want to post the progress nor the final results because I want to keep that as a surprise for the final show.
I will take pictures of the process though, so that I can share it with you later on.

"Pink Flower"
9"x12"
22.9cm x 30.5cm
Watercolor on Paper
$130 (Shipping Included)

Sketch by the Lake

I was driving back home from work but I decided to stop by the complex next to mine because it had this wonderful view of a "flamboyan" (that is what the tree with the orange flowers is called in Spanish - I think they are called Royal Poinsettia in English) and the water. I stopped there and started painting, but the heat and the humidity was sooooo horrible I had to pick up and go... Getting a tan and painting... That is what I call multi-tasking!

"Flamboyan"
9"x12"
Watercolor on Paper
$120 (Shipping Included)

Study

One of my boyfriend's classmates was taking a painting class and she gave me a few pictures of babies she had leftover. I had never painted a baby before so I decided this was an interesting study for today's painting.

"Baby Study"
8"x10"
20.3cm x 20.3cm
Watercolor on Paper
$130 (Shipping Included)

Cecilia Beaux

Today's post is a quick watercolor study from a painting by Cecilia Beaux. She was a wonderful American artist who is many times ignored during art history classes. I recommend you check her out if you are into portraits. She worked in a style similiar to that of John Singer Sargent...

"Thomas Francis Cadwalder" After Cecilia Beaux (Study)
8"x10"
20.3cm x 20.3cm
Watercolor on Paper
$130 (Shipping Included)

Hidden Treasure

Back to my bromeliad concentration.
I was soooo happy when I took the reference photo for this one... I thought I was done photographing bromeliads in my father-in-law's house, but I had not driven one block when I saw this nice orange bromeliad and I had to stop to take a shot of it. What a wonderful surprise when I looked in the center of it and I found this "hidden treasure." For me, it is all the small details that make life so great and worth living. Nature never ceases to amaze me.

"Hidden Treasure"
8"x10"
20.3cm x 20.3cm
Oil on Canvas
Private Collection

Gerberas

I am feeling this one a little more... The reference photo for this picture was taken in Sarasota in the lobby of the hotel. They had all these cute gerberas adorning the coffee tables.

"Simply Gerberas"
8"x10"
20.3cm x 20.3cm
Oil on Canvas