Scarecrow... NOT!

I painted this fellow because one of the projects this month for my watercolor group was to paint a scarecrow... since Fall is upon us. Well, this scarecrow was built by a gardener in Ireland who was having trouble with wood pigeons chewing on his vegetables. He said he slapped this chap up in about 10 minutes. It looks like the garden is thriving but I can't believe it's because the scarecrow can scare anything.

California Poppies

I did this watercolor of the poppies growing in my backyard. A friend at work asked me if I'd ever painted poppies. I hadn't so I thought I'd see if I could. I thought the white poppies were a little more unusual than the orange so I painted a view that had them dominating. This painting is on 7 x 9.34 Kilamanjaro 140 pound cold pressed watercolor paper.
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October Glow

This painting is the September group photo paint that the online watercolor group I belong to is doing. I'm happy with the color complements and the fact that the light is so evident in this painting. It's a 5 x 7 on 300 pound Kilamanjaro cold pressed watercolor paper.

Old San Francisco Chinatown

This was a painting I did in my Thursday night watercolor class. One of the artists brought in this photo from a recent trip to San Francisco. I'm pretty pleased with the light and shadow effects I was able to achieve in this piece. It is done on 10 x 14 Kilamanjaro 300 pound cold pressed paper.

Linda's Rusty Falls

I completed this watercolor painting on September 1, 2008. The model for this painting was a photograph by a woman named Linda who is a self-described "old hippie". Linda explained that sulfur in the water caused the rocks to turn orange. I thought it was so unusual and I like the way the green rocks and the orange rocks complement each other. This painting is on 9x12 300-pound cold pressed Kilimanjaro paper.