Wow!

What an interesting painting.  It does have a story to tell.  Well done. Obviously, you are confident in your brush strokes.

Amazing use of colors.  Striking image!

Jim, you have many great things going in this painting: your sky, the whites of the crashing waves, and the scale of the cliffs with the couple’s silhouetted images.  Nicely done.

Jim, yes yesterday was a great time spent with my Annie and was a lovely day. Many good lifetime memories have been made in this beautiful place.

My sketch will help my memories linger and will allow them to be passed on…

While I am still impressed with the colors I saw shining through these tree leaves, I hope I can create an image in my…[Read more]

I like your fish.

My guess is that they are really hard to paint with watercolors.  Fish can reflect many different colors from their scales. Using opaque paints would make it easier, I think.   The way to paint fish with transparent watercolors I would think the artist would have to trust wet into wet techniques and mixing in different col…[Read more]

I like to paint portraits. I recently traded emails with Janet Rogers who is a professional watercolor artist who sells instruction videos and teaches how to paint portraits and expressive flower paintings.

I explained to her that I wanted to paint our great-granddaughter twins for a Christmas gift. She recommended that I use an image projector…[Read more]

Thank you.  Water and rocks are still difficult for me.  I’ll schedule more practice scenes…  Maybe I shot some scenes today while visiting Wolf Creek that will be worthy of painting. I’ll download my camera’s images and see.

Thanks to all of you.  It has been a long struggle to get my hands around this. Lessons are being learned.  I am about to post the third image that I completed today. Check it out.

With such great sketchbook entries like yours, I’ll never get the courage to paint in my sketchbooks. We’ll see.  I promised my Annie that this Friday we will venture into our canyons and mountains to capture this fall’s colors.

I enjoy your paintings. Please post more…

I need to find Patrick’s painting. I may also attempt painting it.  Looks like a nice lesson adventure.  Ita just that I have so many things planned and so little free time these days.

Your blues in your paintings were stunning.  They pulled my interest in.  Nicely done.

Jim, I am pleased that you are posting your paintings.  Keep them coming.  Best wishes.

You obviously know sailing boats and render their details well.

I wish I could see our world’s details as well as you. Nicely done.

My Annie gave me her evaluation of my chimney before I posted it.  Now that I ponder her comments more I believe she was right.  I should have darkened the chimney some.  Doing that may have given my painting more harmony so it blended with the rest of the composition.  Lesson learned.

It is nice to have my objective confirmed that the yell…[Read more]