WIP Wednesday

Hi Everyone,

Thought I would share my wip pictures of my painting "Spring Bouquet".

I also have a request of all my blogger friends.  I need your advice and input.  I've been invited to teach my first workshop in April and I would love to get your take on workshops.  If you haven't taught one you've probably attended one--so what did you love, what did you hate--what do you want out of a workshop.  Please e-mail me or leave me comments.  I'm going to compile info and do a blog post (I will give credit where it is due).  Can't wait to hear what you have to say.

My drawing is laid out.  I used Daniel Smith, carbazole violet, quinacridone purple, quinacridone burnt orange, Holbein lavender (a new fav color, thank you Carol Carter), DS Indigo and Sepia (mixed as my darks) and Schmincke cadmium yellow

Starting to lay in my petals and bright green foliage.  The background I used the above color palette.  For the tulip I used Daniel Smith perminent alizarin crimson (only in the shadow areas), quinacridone red mixed with perinone orange for the bright saturated petals, I glazed just pernione orange on top after it was dry to get a really bright flower.  For the green foliage in front the bright green is Schmnicke May Green, the shadow areas are Holbein shadow green

For the center of the flower, I used Naples yellow and pernione orange both DS colors.  I also used DS burnt umber and sepia.  Holbein lavender (which works beautifully--just in the middle of being opaque and transparent and mixes wonderfully)

Here is the finished piece "Spring Bouquet" 4.75" x 4.75" original watercolor on paper by Carrie Waller.  Prints are available through ImageKind.  22% for a limited time.

Here it is framed.

Here are a couple of paintings that went to a happy home this week. 

Hope you have a fabulous week.  My brain hurts now from trying to remember the colors I used in my painting:)

Carrie

Spring Bouquet

Hi Everyone,

I spent the weekend getting ready to take several pieces of art to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art.  On March 15th I'm going to have a mini-opening as a featured artist in their shop.  So I've been working on a few small pieces, matting and framing some others.

Here are two little pieces that I painted this weekend.

"Spring Bouquet" original watercolor on paper by Carrie Waller 4.75" x 4.75"
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"Spring Bouquet" framed

"Spring Tulip" original watercolor on paper by Carrie Waller 4.75" x 4.75"
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"Spring Tulip" Framed

In other exciting news my painting "Preservation" was accepted into the Transparent Watercolor Society of America's 36th National Exhibit.

"Preservation" original watercolor on paper by Carrie Waller

And my painting "Love Letter's" won 1st place Saturday night in the Louisiana Watercolor Society's Capital Waters: Art at the Archives Exhibit.

"Love Letters" original watercolor on paper by Carrie Waller

It's been an exciting and busy week.  I also sold 4 paintings last week 2 commissions and 2 others.  I am truly blessed.

On the home front we'll be moving in a couple of months, right after Brian gets home, so we had people looking at our house last week.  Nothing makes you get organized than having people looking through your closets.  I also had to get my pool from a lovely shade of green back to blue.  Happy to report after 240lbs of salt and some algaecide it's looking pretty good, not bad for a weeks work:)  I also put together two cubby shelves for the boys room and managed to only have to take one apart and start over:)  Oh, yeah and we dodged those horrible tornadoes that tore through the South and mid-west.  The skipped over our town but not by too much.  I pray for everyone that was effected by those storms.

I hope you had a fabulous weekend.

Carrie