This January I started to take water color lessons again while I was home in NY. I looks them at the place where I first started painting, but I had a different teacher. The first painting is of Sandy Pond, wich is in upstate NY. It was done from a photgraph. I think this was a bit overworked and forced looking but it was good to paint again!



Ok ant this was my second attempt just to get the free flow of watercolor without holding back and a one time pass. I was more successful in letting the paint flow but when it dried there wasn't enough contrast, that is the nature of watercolor, but I was feeling like I was done with the water and wanted to move on.



After abandoning the view of sandy pond I decided I wanted to learn how to paint a portrait. So i went through a lot of magazines trying to find good portrait painters and i cam across a woman named Debbie Cason Rankin. It was in the Winter 07 issue of American Artist. This is a copy of her piece, the reason I chose to do a copy was so that I could learn how to handle a portrait as opposed to a landscape. It was great to learn from her because she showed the photo that she worked from so that I could see the choices that she was making.



Well this art is all from January through the end of February, now that I found these I am hoping to do a few more!