Paines Creek Road

This is a different image of Paines Creek Beach from Paines Creek Road. It was another demonstration for The Cape Cod Museum of Art water-media class that I am teaching. Spring has arrived where there are hints of green in the grass and under growth. The anticipation of getting to the beach from this view of the water makes it all that more exciting! I love getting trees and grass overlapping the horizon line for a more interesting view. This happens naturally in this view becaue of the incline of the road. The image size is 20" x 12" and is painted in oil.

Wellfleet Sunset

Here is an acrylic painting that I did for a home stager who needed something with yellow for a new home in Wellfleet. The house has been sold.
I got back the painting and felt the painting was O.K. but it needed something. I asked my husband Mac (my best critic)for his help. He said to get rid of all the twig-like objects silhouetted in the foreground. He said that they were distracting . And they were! So with some paint and the paintbrush I painted over them. This is the advantage of acrylic paint. Wellfleet Sunset measures 40" x 23.5 ". It is framed in an oak color articulated frame because I have painted the sides of the canvas too.

The Red Door

Hello to all. Here is another watercolor that I did as a demonstration for my winter watercolor class at Cape Cod Museum of Art. As I write this blog, I hope to help the reader understand my thought process as I paint. I wanted to do a painting with reflections in it.
I always knew to make reflections one shade darker than what is reflected. But artist ,Charles Sovek taught me that the exception is black. Its reflection is one shade lighter.

I also wanted to paint a building to show that if you slope the roof a little in an older structure, that it makes it more charming. My architect husband taught me this. NEVER have it arching up! My greens are made with Prussian blue and lemon yellow without titanium nickel. And when I want to dull the green, I add a little cadmium red, but only a little in some places. I always add red to the green to the paper and never to the palette. This helps keep the greens from getting muddy!