Posted in daily painter, Travel, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Newport Rhode Island, oil painting, Virginia Artist on May 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »
While in Newport last week I took loads of great photos for my reference file. This was one of my favorites. I couldn’t wait to paint it.
Here is the start of the painting.
I love the way this building looks with all the blooming trees around it. Still planning to touch up a few more things on it and then it’s done. I really like this one.
Posted in daily painter, Travel, tagged daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Newport Rhode Island, trees, watercolor on May 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The least fun part of a great vacation is the trip home. Yesterday I had several hours to wait at the airport. Luckily I had packed my travel watercolor kit so while I waited at the cafe with my tea I worked on a little sketch of a photo I took in Newport of the “Trees by the Chinese Pavillion”.
This is the photo I used for the sketch. The challenge was looking at the little screen on my phone, which was where I had the photo. And of course, the phone screen kept timing out so I had to continually press the button to refresh. Ugh!
But I kinda like the end result. It was fun and kept me occupied for a couple of hours so the time at the airport went by pretty quickly.
The Studio 