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watercolors by marian blog archive 2009 14 august 1 dreams grapes june 2 may 1 april 2 march 1 february 4 january 3 2008 10 december 3 october 1 july 2 june 1 may 3 2007 9 june 2 may 7 marian o shaughnessy view my complete profile i love painting aceos collectible art cards and sell those and other small paintings on ebay here is a link to my watercolors by marian store sunday august 30 2009 dreams grapes i did this painting this weekend using gel medium with watercolor the gel medium allowed me to lift whites more easily posted by at 7 01 pm 4 comments labels grape grapes green original watercolor paintings vineyard wine sunday june 28 2009 orange you glad after taking a class from frank webb last week i decided to use one of his compositional techniques for this painting it gradates from left to right darker to lighter it is a rarely used good compositional technique according to frank i found that i had to make the one flower on the right seond one in on the bottom a much darker red to balance the painting before i did that it looked like two different paintings one soft on the right and one bold on the left these poppies were in a side yard of a house that i used to walk past on my daily walks in my neighborhood in rochester mn i took the photo three years ago and decided it would work for this side gradation technique the title comes from that corny joke we used to say as kids orange you glad i didn t say banana orange dominates and i think it is a happy painting posted by at 7 58 am no comments sunday june 21 2009 my first oil i took a class in water soluble oils from cathy futral this week i painted this in class in less than 2 hours you can click to enlarge i found it hard to get the fine detail lines with oil it seemed kind of gloppy to me i missed the flow of the water i guess but the painting does look richer also it is going to take over a month to dry i would definitely need a studio if i used this medium i don t have enough space in my apartment to have drying art laying all over the place right now it is taking up a seat on my porch and i m hoping there are no major storms posted by at 11 47 am 1 comment friday may 29 2009 richards 48th birthday cake my brother likes malted milk balls so i made this cake featuring them i used my grandmother s my favorite and best cake recipe he is now in st thomas on vacation with his family and i hope he is having fun posted by at 6 42 pm no comments labels blue cake candles circles decoration dots fondant gallagher malted milk balls saturday april 18 2009 pinning a new beginning i painted this from a photo of maureen s orchid we bought it for her when we went to miami for her pinning ceremony i used a turquoise background because that is a color she likes and it contrasts well with the yellow orange centers of the orchids posted by at 5 59 pm no comments friday april 10 2009 turtle in the tank i painted a not too great watercolor this weekend at autrey mill nature center while there i took this photo of a turtle red eared terrapin in a tank inside the reptile section it was a pretty strange looking painting and you couldn t really tell what was going on until i decided to glaze the bottom with permanent green light that helped distinquish the side of the tank from the rest of the painting adding some light lines in that section also helped posted by at 4 29 pm no comments labels original watercolor paintings turtle autrey mill terrapin tuesday march 3 2009 bird on a limb take 2 my friend at watercolors wet n wild ning group suggested i darken behind the bird and also the leaves below i took her suggestions and i think it really made a difference don t you posted by at 5 10 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom