Beginning Watercolor

I LOVE introducing people to the joys of painting and watercolor is such a great medium to work with.  I teach weekly classes through our community's art club where we can go into more detail developing a painting and I also lead paint parties.  The paint parties are 3 hours long and I introduce people to the subject we'll be painting and demonstrate the various steps to painting that subject.  My goal is to have people fall in love with painting where they want to explore it even further.

I was asked to have another paint party so people could paint an EMU.  Yep, the emu was so popular last year that those who didn't come wanted a chance to paint it.  Here is their work.  Please note, only a couple attending had ever painted before.

Since it is fall and the EMU paint party quickly filled up, I decided to offer another paint party, this time teaching how to paint the colors found in the maple leaf this time of year. Once again the majority attending had not painted before!  Didn't they all do great!!!

Another Pan Pastel

I usually keep quite busy with my commissions for painting people's pets using watercolor but found a little free time this past week to break out my pan pastels and practice using them.  I say practice because I'm fairly new to this medium and totally self taught.  I love how I am able to mix just a few colors to make almost any color I need.