Brewery Art Walk

Cheery skies at the Brewery Art Colony this afternoon.

Venice Artwalk & Auction

Small watercolor painting wrapped and ready for the Venice Artwalk, coming up in just a few weeks.

Watercolor painting

Finally finished (more or less) -- watercolor on hot-press paper...

Wet in wet effect

Love it when I get such a nicely striated bleed to soften a hard boundary like this black to white transition. Aggressive staining colors like phthalo blue here really want to spread out and colonize the whole pool, and it's a job to rein them in.

In the studio

Today's fun and games -- outlining the foliage...

Update on the work

Detail of this watercolor painting in process, perhaps half done at this point. Almost ready to slather on the background...

Tool tip

Painting straight lines with my smoothest ruler serving as the finger slide. The brush stays about a half inch away from the ruler, which guides each hand gesture. This works surprisingly well...