Category: Water
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Nimisila C-6: Study Review
I decided that before I start a new painting of these lily pads at the C-6 Dock at Nimisila Reservoir, I should review the paintings I have made so far. I realized over the weekend that Im not painting the actual scene anymore, Im painting some kind of analog of what I saw and felt…
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Nimisila C-6: #14
Well folks, this is the last painting of my second year of watercolor! This is number 14 in my studies as I prepare for a painting that Ill be making on a full sheet. I think Im close, but I want to try again, with more wet in wet work in the peninsula, and any…
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Nimisila C-6: #13
You know that famous saying, The thirteenth times a charm. Before I get into the painting, I wanted to show the sketch, and a little thing I did to my easel this weekend. Easel Hack I have this drafting compass from Rachels Pappy that I use all the time. I use it to measure something…
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Nimisila C-6: #10-11
Dang. These are hard. Number 10: I didnt bother to go back in and paint the flowers on this one because I knew it wasnt going to be a finished version. I like the way the water is rendered in this one, but like all the others, the lily pads here are quite dark. I…
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Nimisilla C-6: #8-9
I decided to try the painting of the lillies at the C-6 boat ramp at Nimisila Reservoir again today. If you want to see the evolution of this one, the first four paintings are discussed here, and paintings 5-7 are here. Nimisila C-6: #8… Yuck For this painting I wanted to try to focus on…
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Nimisila C-6: #5 – 7
How? HOW?! How did Monet do water lillies so much justice? And how does Joseph Zbukvic achieve similar perfection in his paintings? I clearly do not know. I tried to paint the scene from Nimisilla Reservoir dock C-6 again today. I think Im getting closer, but Im still not entirely sure how to represent that…
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Nimisilla C-6: #1-4
I went out to Nimisilla Reservoir today to try some Plein air painting. I am not happy with any of the results, so I tried again at home, and Im not happy with that either. I dont feel like doing a full write up on another failed painting, but I am committed to posting even…
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Wave Crash
Ok … GUYS! Im proud of this one. That means if you dont like it, shut up. Because Im fragile. Call me a snow flake, a wuss, whatever. I dont care. I just know that I like this painting, and I almost never actually like my work. If you tell me why it sucks, I…
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Collettes Happy Place
My mom has a friend in Arizona who wanted a painting of a photograph that her daughter took of a place where she likes to camp. It was a challenging photo, but Im pleased with the final results. The photo is beautiful, and a really interesting composition. This is very different from what I normally…
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Dock at Deer Creek: #1
This painting is my attempt to recreate a photo that I took one morning just after sunrise at Deer Creek here in Ohio. I went fishing in the morning, and stopped for a moment on the dock to take some pictures. One of my favorite photos was this one: After a few weeks of having…
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Waterfall at Blackhand Gorge: #1
I took Norah, and Winnie out to Blackhand Gorge last weekend because I couldnt work in the bathroom (the tile was setting.) I told them about the history of the Gorge, as I got it from Wikipedia. Before Europeans came to Ohio, there was a system of cliff ridges near the Licking River in Ohio…
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How do you get to Broadway?
A long time ago, in 1997, I wanted to write better poetry. I would regularly get together after school with my friend Kevin Vincent. We would go to the grocery store and buy a few apples, and some limes. Then wed go to my house, eat the apples, chew on the sour limes, and compare…
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Eiffel Le-Croissant
I saw a picture by u/le-croissant on Reddit r/MostBeautiful about a month ago, and I loved it. (Instagram @the_casual_iphonographer) He gave me permission to paint it, so I gave it a shot. The first time, I hated it. Actually, I should be more clearI liked it a lot, until I decided for some reason to…
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Rocks by a Creek
I am waiting for some paper to stretch, so I figured, what the hell, why not trys something Ive never tried before? My brother told me that in Art School he once has to go outside and draw a picture, but he wasnt allowed to use any conventional tools. He had charcoal, and paper, and…
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Lowery Lake Exercise: #2
I painted a lake cottage from Arnold Lowrys book today. I think painting from a book is a good idea for beginners like me because you get to compare what you did to what a professional artist has done. You can do the same thing by trying to create a forgery of another artists work,…
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Lowrey Waterfall Study: #1
I have this book Start to Paint with Watercolours by Arnold Lowrey. I picked it up a long time ago, and tried the first exercise in the book, with what I felt were positive results. I tried the next exercise in the book, but didnt find the walkthrough terribly helpful. Today, I didnt have much…
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Creek Bridge: #1
Tonight, the goal was to paint a creek, paying attention to perspective, and atmosphere. When I started, there was no bridge in my mind, but a bloom seemed to suggest one, so I went with it. I dont have a reference sketch or photo for this one, Im just kind of laying down layers and…
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Log Bridge: #1
I wanted to practice figure painting a bit more, so I invented a scene, and tried to paint it. My idea was to try to paint a picture of a guy carefully walking across a log. Its something Ive done more than a few times fishing, but Ive never photographed it, so I had to…
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Cottonwood: #2
Tonight I decided I would try that cottonwood painting again after all. Once again, I wanted to focus on a limited palette, so I went with Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, and Ultramarine Violet. I went with Ultramarine Violet instead of Quin Purple because I figured it might give me more red… not sure if that…
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Cottonwood: #1
I wanted to paint something from my imagination tonight, and tried to focus on neutralized colors. One thing my paintings suffer from (among others) is that they often make use of very high key colors, and often dont have much color harmony as a result. So I decided to make a painting using just three…