Art2love -Watercolor by Jean

This series went so fast. We had our last class this pass Monday.

I photographed a vase of flowers I picked from my garden. Bringing the photo to class I did a demo on how to paint it. My students started their paintings using the method I showed them. They only started paintings, so I didn't photograph them, but they promised to work on them during the break before our next series in the spring.

This is the finished demo I painted.

Did four little paintings a while ago and forgot to post them. So here they are!

Our spring series of "Watercolor with Jean" started out with the inspiration of tulips. I love their shapes and colors. I enjoyed painting my interpretation of them just before classes began.





My first class, I shared my my enthusiasm for these flowers and gave the class a demo on where to begin. This is the finished demo from class.


These are the the beginning and finished tulip paintings of my students.

Entered this painting in the spring judged/juried show at Mispillion Art League and Gallery and won an honorable mention ribbon.

Another fun watercolor class last week. We worked on some fall leaf paintings. I did a painting at home as an example and then did a demo at class.

At home.



Demo at class.



I was able to photograph three student's paintings and then the battery on my camera died, so I will just post them.





One more class next week and then this series is complete.

I started a new series of watercolor classes. It's been months since my last series so I started with a review of the color wheel and again mixing colors from the three primary colors. For some students it was new, so we spent a little more time on it.

I picked three peppers from my one plant in my small garden. They turned interesting shades of red, orange and green, so I photographed them with some nice lighting to create interesting shadows. They became the focus of our first project. I did a example at home...




and then a demo in class...


The students then created their own paintings of our peppers...





All in all it's been fun classes.