More Water

This is a new watercolor, titled at least for now "December, Eagle County." I started this piece as a demo painting for my watercolor class at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts--amazingly enough I did not completely destroy the painting as I usually do with demo pieces! It is 19x25 on 300# Canson 100, my favorite heavier weight watercolor paper. (It has a great dual surface--rough and smooth, is slightly smaller than most full sheets, and is not terribly expensive.) There was sheer joy in painting this piece. Some of them are just like that.

My main body of work right now continues to be the monochromatic full sized pastels but this is a nice side work; I will always be fascinated with running moving water whether or not it is part of my current series.

Dawn

Shameless Self Promotion

So here is cute little old me teaching my watercolor class at The Art Center. This class has been a lot of fun so far; we've been looking at a huge variety of landscape techniques from painting foliage to how to paint realistic water in different settings.

I have a show scheduled at The Art Center (technically Western Colorado Center For the Arts: www.gjartcenter.org) in 2010, the exact date is yet to be decided. Yes, they are booking that far out! I am enjoying painting with watercolors on a regular basis again. I just like to keep things mixed up.

In other class news we are halfway through the semester at Mesa State: woo hoo! I have two good classes over there but it's that time of year when everyone begins stressing out. Plus I am looking forward to more studio time over the holidays.

Happy painting!
Dawn

Hiawatha

And finally we have some new work posted. This is "Hiawatha;" the subject matter is a big old grain warehouse on Hiawatha Ave in Minneapolis MN. Some of these images look like they were uploaded incorrectly but I actually laid this one out upside-down. I'd like to say it was for some great artistic purpose, like working on the right side of the mind by utilizing non-traditional compositional techniques, but what really happened is the paper was a little too large for the board I had it taped to and by the time I laid out my grid I realized the overhang on the paper was on the bottom. When I put it on the easel right-side-up it buckled terribly. I was too impatient to wait to fix it so I worked on in upside-down until I had the underpainting right. I calmed down enough to fix it before I righted it.

This is 24x36 pastel on Wallis sanded pastel paper.