This is my third painting of 2012 and is another experiment with the use of the Daniel Smith brand of watercolor paints. They are bold, concentrated, and extremely nice to work with. This particular piece is another attempt to create an interesting... 

I finally finished my second painting of the year. It has been a bit slow-going with all the school closures that have been happening, etc... I used an all Daniel Smith palette for this one and am really enjoying using their high-quality watercolor... 

This is my first new painting of 2012 and it incorporates some interesting changes. I plan to use a palette of Daniel Smith paints for this year and this is the first to incorporate them. I have been a big fan of their Primatek series and this is m... 

This is another quickly and loosely painted piece that I worked on while my children were painting. They lost interest quickly, however, and the painting time became even more limited. We still had fun though! The original is 12"x16" in size and is... 

This piece was painted as a simple monotone value study. I considered elaborating upon it a bit but decided to leave it as is. The original is 6.25"x10.25" in size and is painted with Rublev Madder Lake watercolor paint on Arches 140# cold-pressed ... 

This is a quick and very loose painting I did while painting with my 5 year old son. I did no sketching and painted very wet with my largest brush. I let the paper buckle and determine where the pigment flowed. The original is painted with Senneli... 

I wasn't sure how this piece was going to turn out so I kept setting it to the side while worked on some other paintings. I decided to go ahead and finish it up last night to see how it would finally manifest itself. The original is 10.25"x14.25" i... 

I wanted to do something completely different from my normal work for this piece just to keep things interesting and fun. I got the paper soaking wet for this one and dropped color in to create backruns, blooms, and other watercolor effects. This i... 

Because of the very simple nature of a single tulip, I felt that it wouldn't work well against my very simple dark backgrounds that I have been experimenting with lately. I decided to try something interesting and split the background diagonally. I... 

This painting is comprised of only three pigments. I used Prussian Blue and Vine Black for the dark background, and Madder Lake for the petals. It is the first time I have used this particular manufacturer's Madder Lake and found it to be very clum... 

This piece began as a simple Lilac cluster but I I wanted to add a bit of a stylistic vibe to it. It took about 6 hours of painting to complete this watercolor piece in order to achieve the depth and dimensionality that I wanted. The original is 10... 

This is another watercolor painting in my floral series where I have utilized a dark background. The contrast really seems to make the flower pop off the page. There is even a greater sense of three-dimensionality to the original painting. I let m... 

This is another addition to my floral series where I have been experimenting with dark backgrounds. This background has a subtle hint of Prussian Blue to it which helps make the flowers really pop out of the composition. The original is painted exc... 

This is another of my experiments with the utilization of a very dark watercolor background. It is amazing how it really makes these "white" flowers pop! I am intrigued by the high contrast of the painting. The original is 10.25"x14.25" in size an... 

This is another experiment with a floral cluster against a very dark background. I added a bit of texture to create a satin-like effect to the background and tried to leave a lot of highlights in the flowers to create a lot of contrast. The origina...