5 minute watercolor flowers

I've discovered this fabulous blog    Art Du Jour by Martha Lever.  She offers online Calligraphy classes which I plan to sign up today.  While looking through her wonderful blog, I notices that she has some YouTube videos and one of them is "How to paint 5 minute flowers."    The technique is so simple...just dropping in colors to create flower pots of flowers.  The technique is so easy that it would lend itself to doing all types of 5 minute watercolors.  So if you have a moment go visit her blog...it's worth the visit.

IF -- toys

When I think of toys, I always remember the wonderful afternoons I spent flying my kite.

Poppies and calligraphy

I'm still painting poppies.  I wanted to add calligraphy under the poppies, but on my first painting the calligraphy ink was not waterproof so it bleed.  Then I did same poppies picture this time using blue waterproof calligraphy pen on top of the poppies.  Next painting I'll attempt to paint over the calligraphy, hopefully it won't bleed.

wet on wet leaves

I'm taking another online  class with Michelle Brown...Loosing up March...learning to paint wet-on-wet very loose.  This is my first attempt at painting these leaves.  Instead of drawing an outline of the leaves I used my paint brush loaded with color to define the leaf shapes.   Then I dropped in color, after color, until I got a desired color I could live with.  I was using my water brush and a small travel palette on non-watercolor paper.  There was some buckling.  When the painting was dry, I turned it over and on a low setting applied a warm iron to flatten out the paper.  I think in order for me to paint wet-on-wet I need to use a regular watercolor brush and my regular size watercolor palette.