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| Lesson # 1 - Sept 10 Deb Watson Watercolor |
Image size 12 x 9" of a serious young dancer at a Celtic Festival - watercolor on masonite aquabord and varnished, (so it can framed without mat or glass) for sale this week on eBay.
This is my weekly painting that will go for sale on eBay at 6 p.m. The image size is 10.5 x 8 and it comes with a double white acid free mat and backboard. Can you find the tiny alley cat in the picture? www.debwatson.org
Here's my weekly painting, another small town landscape from my neighborhood. A Touch of Red is 9 x 12" on watercolor paper stretched on canvas stretchers. It's varnished and the sides are painted, so it can be hung as is or framed. It's for sale on ebay ending Sunday the 15th. So far this year, I've sold two small oils and one varnished watercolor that looks like an oil. I'm planning to do a lot more of both mediums. Keep up on my website - www.debwatson.org.
12 x 17" Watercolor on Paper of my neighbor's back yard after our freak early snowstorm. The sun was shining and the snow was starting to melt. I lost a lot of trees. (I live in the woods.) Next summer I'll have more light in my gardens, so there is a silver lining I guess. www.DebWatson.org
This was for a Christmas present and I felt like being creative, so I used cat fur smeared on my paper and sprayed with gold and brown to create the background texture. I decided to call it the cat hair crackle. Then I painted the cat on top and let parts blend with the background. It was fun, but wet cat hair smells as bad as wet dog, so I don't think I'll do this again till I can open the windows. www.debwatson.org
This is a watercolor painting of my grandson in front of a mosaic. I did a similar painting of my niece and had it accepted in the National Watercolor Society, so I did this one as an entry for the American WC Society's show. Whether it gets in or not, I like the effect. It's always so satisfying for me to do photo realism with blue jeans and people. www.debwatson.org
Here's a detail from a watercolor painting I'm doing for a special exhibit at the York Art Association. In the first picture, you can see where I put on color, very wet, and added salt, which made the little texture spots.
After that was dry, I started adding more layers on dry paper to define some of the clumps of leaves. Unfortunately, when I photographed the stream, it was all green, which is boring, so I'm adding some fall colors to some of the trees to break it up.
I was taking this painting out of its frame to send for jurying into a group, so I couldn't resist reworking a bit. (I can't leave anything alone.) I had the top of the window ledge white and the sill very dark, so the contrast between all those straight lines kept pulling my eye from the face. I washed over the middle background area, reducing the change in value. I like it much better.
I'm trying to pick three paintings to send for jurying into National Watercolor Society. I didn't expect to have this opportunity and most of my best paintings are already promised to other exhibits. (That'll teach me to keep busy!) This is an older painting that was still in the studio and he'll be one of my hopeful examples. He was a fisherman at Myrtle Beach.
My painting, Serenity, got accepted into the National Watercolor Society's juried show! I've been trying for years, and am still having a hard time believing it.
I put my exhibit that's opening Aug 5 online so everyone can see! www.debiwatson.com/gallery
Feeding Time is a watercolor painting, 16 x 20 of miniature horses. I liked the light and the little horses. I'm getting ready for a showing of work at a local library. It gives me a good reason to finish what I have started and clean up the studio. www.debiwatson.com
This is a watercolor painting, Fireman's Locker, from my local fire company. It will be showing, along with 11 other of my original watercolors and many of my friends, Don Whitesels, at Bube's Brewery in Mt Joy, PA through May 2. 
