"Flower Power"

Today, I sent off an email attachment of this painting to the California Watercolor Association for their national show. It is held at the Presidio in San Francisco and you have to have a painting accepted 3 times to be considered as a "signature member" of the show. I was lucky enough to have "A-Mazing!" accepted in 2007, the first time that I entered. So, I am trying again with this bold, bright floral. 

It is strictly watercolor--absolutely nothing else but watercolor. It's like I'm enjoying going back to wet into wet, wild and crazy paintings recently.

Keep your fingers crossed that it gets accepted, but if it doesn't I'll try again next year with a different painting.

Happy Thanksgiving--yesterday!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday, with family and friends. We were invited out to friends this year and it was a really nice dinner and afternoon. So much to be thankful for!

I thought I had posted yesterday, but must have forgotten to actually "publish" it. I am still learning this whole blog thing, you know!?

Last night, I prepared several wet into wet backgrounds and tonight I worked on them. They all started with versions of the primary colors (red, yellow, blue) and 3 areas of each color, one large, one medium-sized, and one small. I let them dry and use them as backgrounds for paintings. It's an easy and fun way to get started. I wish I had a photo of a painting done in a similar way to put up with today's post, but I can't find one at the moment. So, today's painting will be "Strong Language", a mixed media painting with a definite, very obvious message. It did start with a wet into wet background that I added a lot of collage on top of. It has been my most popular giclee print, but I haven't sold the original painting which is larger than 30" X 38" and it is hanging on the hall wall (in my view) as I type this message!