This is an experiment with honey watercolor paints and it made the forest look kind of magical.
This is my first plein air painting. I painted the background watercolor part at the park, using my new easel, then finished it at home. It’s also the first time I tried painting on a watercolor board.
After receiving some helpful critiques from fellow Art Guild members, I added some things that help to finish the painting.
It was a nice day out with my husband, finished with ice cream at Route 66 Creamery in Hamel.
I referred to this hymn in Yahweh Shalom. After deciding I would try illustrating a hymn, I chose this one. The ocean treatment is new to me, and I haven’t painted many people yet. I was happy to find a photo of Horatio Spafford, and he was leaning on something which I turned into a ship rail.
I was on our deck looking for the subject of my next painting. I looked up and thought the trees made a nice frame for the sky, so decided that would be it, and here it is! And recently I got metallic, shimmery watercolor paint so used that in this painting. You can see light reflecting off of some of the leaves.
I was painting flowers for practice and had so much fun painting the clover, I decided to make a painting of it. Bees seemed a natural fit.