Ritual sumi warmup

This is as far as I got today; I hope to have some paintings to post when I return from vacation at the coast. I had planned to paint some horses, but too many interruptions waylaid that plan.

Messy garden

Float series number 4

Another view of beach stuff:

Thinking about the beach ...

Wild garden series

Wild garden

Summer paintings from this weekend. Each about 7 inches square done in Japanese watercolor on Chinese shuen rice paper and mounted on a masa paper support.

Friday painting

A busy day, one small painting...

Experiment with color inversion

Here's a view of the same Dungeness crab painting, but with opposite values.

Small sumi (ink) paintings

These paintings are seven inches square. The two crab ones show the two different sumi painting styles, one done with shapes and the other one in lines. I like to do these small studies before attempting a large piece. My years of teaching taught me the importance of doing a warm-up before seriously painting. I hope you like them...

Today's watercolor

(This painting is now sold.)
Working at the Market again today, I painted this with many interruptions which probably effected the outcome somewhat. It is a small 5x7 watercolor. The Sunday Bouquet sold today to a lady from Texas. I think it is to be a gift. I did some sumi paintings after this warmup and they will appear after they have been mounted onto a backing with cornstarch glue, the traditional method although wall paper paste is popular with some sumi artists, I find it is not permanent. This little painting will go into the Gallery browser bin as the other did. It will find a home...

Summer Feathers

It is warm today and the ink dries fast.

Sunday Bouquet

Today I painted this tiny bouquet while I was working at the Gallery at the Market. There were lots of people watching me paint, so it is a demo kind of painting.

Sold.

Here's another image as I test how to post photos correctly.

More to come later...

First painting post...

Here is the announcement from my last show. It is the first image posting so far...a sumi fledgling.

Thanks to Barbara Newton and Marilyn Webberley, two very fine artists, I am now on my way as a new blogger. Thank you fellow artists!

This painting is sold.

Getting started...

Soon to come - new paintings.