January 19 - 22

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One thing I noticed as I worked through these - playing catch up on the month - is that I liked to work in similar colors or keys. Like the above, its all a mix of reds and greens.


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January - week 4 samples

January 12 - 16

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I definitely used Gaugain-ish colors here.

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Never was much of a fan of Chagall. I used a sharpie to get the black lines.

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I noted here that I made it a winter scene as it is January and i saw all the rocks more as banks of snow.

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Opal's is a nice spring garden scene. I notice she makes richer, darker colors.

January - week 3 samples

January 5 - 9

January - week 2 samples

January 1 and 2

Silly me, I read Degas, but thought Toulouse Lautrec because of the description, so I painted it more in TL's color schemes.




Frankly, this scene didn't do much for me and I pictured it rather higher key than the sample.

January - week 1 samples

Introduction

I bought this calendar "Watercolor Lesson-a-Day" for my mom for Christmas. She enjoys watercolor and has been taking lessons for some time. I thought it would be a neat way to do a daily exercise in art - something quick for those days one doesn't have a lot of time in their schedule. I bought one for myself too, though I am not a watercolorist. I've found that there is not actually much of a lesson, but there are tips and the images they present to paint, and the historical references are interesting. I thought I would start this blog to post these daily exercises my mother and I do. It will be fun to see our different daily interpretations and it has gotten me thinking about something to develop for next year. But that is for a later (much) discussion.

Disclaimer: The idea for this and the artwork is copyright protected by the individual artists noted on the scanned images and by Accord Publishing.