Day 15: "One Watercolor A Day". Geometric Landscape.

Japanese Garden at the Brooklyn Botanical

Japanese Garden at the Brooklyn Botanical

Japanese Garden at the Brooklyn Botanical

DUMBO, Brooklyn

DUMBO, Brooklyn

I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 14: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge: Happy Spring Feeling

Rain, petals and aroma. Spring at the Brooklyn Botanic Japanese Garden.

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I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 12: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge: 3-Minute Landscape

Today's exercise was about making 3-minute watercolor landscapes. Here are some window views of DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn.

I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 11: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge: Flowers.

I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 10: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge: Toys (from my Soviet childhood)

I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 8: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge: Plant leaves.

I was on a short vacation in Dominican Republic last few days (ahh!), and was just mesmerized by the endless patterns of overlapping palm tree leaves. Here they are. The bigger painting is from the airport.

I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.


 

Day 7: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge: Food Studies.

Here are some watercolors of berries and sushi. For variation, I used a masking fluid pen on some, which would make this a hybrid of Day 5 and Day 7 of the book. I feel like I'm learning a lot, such a great book to study with.

I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 6: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge: Layered Landscape.

Some studies Brooklynscapes in watercolor glazing.

I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 5: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge: Masking Fluid.

Being in a fairy tale mood, I revisited some of my thumbnails from Disney's Magic Kingdom, and used them as the starting point for these studies of Pegasus flying over a kingdom and unlocking springs of living water. The point of the exercise was to use masking fluid with watercolors. It's something I've never done before, a new technique, and I loved it! The suspense of rubbing the rubbery mask off the dry painting to reveal paper was the best part. Will pack a masking fluid pen next time I go draw on location.

I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 4: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge. Still Life Color Studies

Color wheel studies in analogous, complimentary, split complimentary and monochromatic color combinations.

 I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 3: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge

Red mono of a dreamscape. Here are red sunsets over the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn.

 And another take on the bridge, now from observation, and in blue mono.

I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 2: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge

Exercise 2. Flower painting in two variations: wet paint on wet paper vs. wet paint on dry paper.

These two Amaryllis stems, one with green blossoms and one with red blossoms, barely survived the brisk 5 minute walk form the flower shop to my home in this crazy freezing weather we've been having in New York lately. They lived just long enough for me to paint them.  

Admittedly, Wet on Wet was my favorite of the two techniques, as it captures the floral essence perfectly. 

left: Wet on Wet / right: Wet on Dry

All Wet on Wet

left: Wet on Wet / right: Wet on Dry

I'm doing one watercolor exercise a week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

Day 1: "One Watercolor A Day" Challenge

It's January 1, 2014. I'm doing one watercolor exercise a (day) week, following a delightful book called "One Watercolor A Day", written by my art teacher Veronica Lawlor, with my other art teacher Margaret Hurst, and their co-members of Studio 1482 artist collective. Check out the One Watercolor A Day open Facebook group, where participants of the challenge are posting their exercise results on weekly basis.

So far, so fun. Here we go.
Day 1. Exploration of watercolor.