Mountain Lake Landscape

 

This small gouache landscape is 2 1/8" by 5 1/2". It is in my 5x8 Moleskine notebook of buff cardstock. The image is an imagined location, perhaps a scene you might find in Scotland.

The Woods at Dusk

This print was created by multiple reprinting over each other.

 

Pond at Dusk

 

This mini gouache landscape closes out the Fabriano sketchbook. 

The painting is 3 by 2 inches.

Summer Storm Clouds

 

This small gouach painting measures 3.5 by 2.5 inches. It is in the Fabriano sketchbook I have been working to finish and am almost there. 

I have ordered and received a very nice small easel from cups easels which I plan to use mainly for gouache. It is small and light enough for Plein air work and is able to attach to a photography tripod, sit on a table, or be held by hand.

It is made in Canada. I had a minor problem with the order and the customer service was as excellent as their product.

Pond Tree

In my attempt to fill this sketchbook, I painted another mini gouache landscape yesterday afternoon. This one measures 2 1/4" by 3 1/8". My new easel from Cups Easels in Canada arrived today. It is actually made in Canada by a small company. It will mainly be used for gouache. I also ordered an additional palette for watercolor paints. Excited to try it out.

 

Meadow Spring

 

Another mini gouache painting I did in my Fabriano sketchbook. This little painting is 6"x2". I need to do 3 more then the book will be finished and I can place it on the shelf and call it done.

Stone Bridge

Another mini gouache landscape. This one is 2.5 x 3 inches. I only have 3-4 pages left in this Fabriano sketchbook to fill before I can place it on the bookshelf.

 

Small Waterfall

Truly enjoying playing with gouache. This 3x3.5" mini landscape is done in the Fabriano sketchbook I have been using. This paper doesn't work for me when I am using transparent watercolor but it is fine for gouache paints. May just fill the rest of the pages with these mini gouache paintings.

 

Trees

 Another copy of a Thomas Paquette gouache sketch. It is even smaller than the first one, 2" x 2 1/2" inches. Even though it is so small I am still getting practice mixing colors and applying layers of the gouache paint. Plus learning drying times and how much water, if any to add. But I am not wasting loads of pigment.

River (unmounted)

I have been working on a new oriental brush painting, River. It is probably finished, waiting to be mounted, sitting in a drawer. Will mount it when I get at least 3 paintings finished. It is a pain to drag out the large mounting boards.

53th Annual Juried Exhibition

Saturday night was the Sumi-e Society of America's 53th Annual Awards Banquet. The Judge, Freda Lee-McCann selected two of my paintings for the show. Then I was pleasantly surprised to receive the Sarasota Chapter Award for my Deer Friends 2 painting.

I AM IN!

Deer Friends II

Summer Joy

Both of my entries for the 2016 Sumi-e Society of America's Annual show were accepted. I have gotten one painting in but never both both. I am thrilled. Although painted in my usual traditional landscape style they are both different. The show this year will be on the internet around 30 September. I will post the link when they are up.

Two crinkle starts

Starting painting stages alway look awkward and disappointing to people unless you are an artist. Then you see the potential just like watching a child develop.

The top one is based on a painting I just finished, "Pine Falls". I thought it would be interesting to see how two paintings that begin with different techniques but the same vision would end up.

Pine Falls

I am always delighted at how mounting a Chinese Brush Painting always pops the colors. And getting rid of the waves and wrinkles cased by painting on rice paper really allows you to see the painting you originally envisioned.