Sharing my passion of watercolor painting, sketching, and photography
Looking through some of my earlier work, I ran across this watercolor and ink painting. A sweet little scene of a family enjoying time at the beach.
Happy Thursday friends! 😊
I hope you are inspired to create art and do what you love.
Until next time, share a smile and shine on.
Happy Painting!
Patty Anne
Another lavender watercolor to share with you today.
Happy Sunday, friends! 😊💜
9 x 12 inch Lavender Bliss
Wet on wet technique with a limited color palette:
Daniel Smith Cobalt Teal Blue, French Ultramarine, and Quinacridone Rose
Brushes used: Round 14, Round 12, and Liner 2
Oh how I love these colors together. I was able to get a nice range of purples by mixing my own. I think the variety adds some interest and it just makes me happy.
Color mixing tip: French Ultramarine and Quinacridone Rose were used to mix different shades of purple. It’s as simple as changing the amount of each color to create a nice variety.
I hope you are inspired to create art and do what you love. Thank you for stopping by and following me on this creative journey. Until next time, share a smile and have a great week.
Happy Painting! 💜
Patty Anne
Playing with patterns and shapes, I had fun working on this tree doodle. I took my time and it slowly came together over a few evenings.
Happy Thursday! 💜😊
Using a micron pen, I sketched out a tree and created a bunch of sections to doodle in.
A meditative art with no rules or mistakes. I move forward not worrying about the final result. That feels so good. ☺️
Next step, filling in more sections and trying out different patterns.
I didn’t work from top to bottom or side to side.
I used a few of the same patterns and jumped around in an attempt to spread things out on the tree top.
I fell in love with a weave pattern and thought it would provide some texture on the trunk. I like that it seems to guide your eye upward into the tree top. 💚
A little shading at the end to finish up.
Lesson learned, using a pencil for the shading is a good idea. Shading with the micron pen was difficult and caused a few areas to get much darker than desired.
I hope you are inspired to create art and do what you love. Thank you for stopping by and following me on this creative journey.
Happy Painting!
Patty Anne
A colorful post today with a few bright Christmas trees! 🎄
Happy Sunday, friends! 😊
A fun little tree that I painted a few weeks ago after watching a Jennifer Branch video online. Bright colors + splashy paint = lots of fun!
Another joyful tree with a different color palette.
This felt like the right post for today since I will be busy pulling out the decorations and getting my house ready for Christmas.
I hope you are inspired to create art and do what you love. Thank you for stopping by and following me on this creative journey.
Happy Painting!
Patty Anne
A landscape with snowy pines for you today.
Hope you have a wonderful Thursday! 😊
Frozen daydream – 9 x 12 inch bee watercolor paper
I hope you are inspired to create art and do what you love.
Until next time, share a smile and spread kindness all around.
Happy Painting!
Patty Anne
A few favorite photos to share from a recent weekend at the lake.
Happy Sunday friends! 🙂
One last hurrah at the lake, splashing around and having fun!
Diving in and loving every minute of it. 💗🐾 Oh, happy day!!
and back in again… but this time I managed to get a shot with one paw in the water and the rest of his body in the air.
Playing at the shore in the weeds and getting ready to hit the dock again at full speed.
A view through the weeds on the shore as my boy swims by.
I love this lake view, so calm and peaceful.
This photo of a pine branch in the afternoon sun really speaks to my heart.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this time at the lake and Huey’s last swim of the season.
Hope you have a great week.
Happy Painting!
Patty Anne
A landscape practice and a few lessons learned.
Happy Sunday! 🙂
As I started working on this painting I quickly realized that things weren’t going as planned. When I dropped color on my damp watercolor paper I could see that my timing was off. My plan was to create distant trees but that was not what was happening. I was disappointed at first but continued on and did not fight it.
Lesson learned: Go with the flow and allow the painting to guide you.
I continued dropping in color and resisted the urge to fix things.
Stepping back I could see an unexpected cityscape with buildings and trees. What a happy surprise. Things didn’t go as initially planned but that’s ok. I learned a lot from this exercise and in the end I love the cityscape painting that resulted.
Lesson learned: Watercolor sometimes delivers a happy surprise.
I plan on keeping this painting near my desk as a reminder of these important lessons. 🙂
I hope you are inspired to create art and do what you love. Thank you for stopping by and following along. Until next time, share a smile and have a great week.
Happy Painting!
Patty Anne
