Lakeside Trees - watercolor, 11"x15" - this painitng was a demonstration for the watcolor class I teach. It was created by using direct painting and spray bottle with liquid watercolor paints, an interesting technique with amazing possibilities.

Ukranian Egg Decoration

Decorated this goose egg by the Ukrainian method using wax-resist and dyes. It takes a bit of practice, but the system has amazing results. My friend, Nancy Wolf, teaches this method each Easter and has taught many people how to do it. I had a wonderful afternoon at Nancy's house making this design and enjoyed meeting eight other artists.

                                      "Tori" - watercolor - 11 x 15 inches
                                                         copyright JLynn Peterson

This is a demo for my watercolor class. The challenge was to do a painting in gray using only red, yellow and blue pigments. I was not concerned with creating a perfect likeness of my granddaughter but concentrated on mixing grays without a color bias leaning toward any of the three colors. Working with the great hues produced by modern manufacturers students can get distracted and forget about values while painting - sometimes it is great to just get lost in COLOR but, one should find out what VALUE those colors are if they want to have a successful painting...very tricky stuff.

                                                 "Computer Doodle"

I'm wondering why few visitors leave a comment? At first this blog had a problem with comments but I thought it was resolved - some go to my facebook page to make a comment about this blog - it seems to me it would be easier to leave a comment while at this site. Any information about this would be appreciated. Thanks, as above, JLynn

Victoria

"Tori"  - digital photograph - copyright jlynn

This is my reference photo for my next painting - she is my granddaughter, Tori, when she was little. I worked with the photo in Adobe photoshop. Can't wait to start this but have a few thing to do first...

Okay, I was a day late, sorry! Two more of my series: the top photo was a demonstration for my watercolor class with the challenge being "patterns" and the bottom photo was a demonstration with the challenge being "texture". The next challenge for the class is to paint in values using only red-yellow-blue to create gray. That should be interesting (I've got to stop giving them such difficult challenges because I have to do them too! HA.)

Experiment - taking one image and painting it again and again with certain challenges in mind. I began this quest in a workshop with Ruth Armitage and I am still adding to it. Painting the same subject several times makes you very familiar with it - it becomes intimate and you will find you no longer need reference material to do another. I have two others after this and will post them tomorrow.