Welcome to the January -- March 2008 Project. The painting for this project must be based on the theme, Flowers. The painting you submit must be painted specifically for this project and be watermedia. Submit your images to me via email or snail mail. Send title, size, and comments about the paintings and painting process. Let me know if it is OK to link your email address when I add your image to the project page. The project end date is March 31, 2008.
Shirley Shoemaker
"Bleeding Hearts Visited"
Watercolor on Arches paper 140 lb. It isn't very big only used half of sheet of a 9x12. This is the first time I have painted a hummingbird and don't even know if they like Bleeding Hearts. But it was a fun project.
Hema Gupta
"Rose"
This painting was done on 15 inch X 22 inch cold pressed paper. Reference is a greetings card, received quite some time back. I always wanted to paint it when I first saw it.
Penny Thompson
"Untitled"
This is my submission for the "flowers" project. It was painted on Arch's 140 lb. cold pressed paper and I used a variety of paints. Again thank you for hosting this project, as I always look forward to it.
Randy Emmons
Lavender & Butterfly
I hate painting flowers! I have tried and tried and they just don’t have that niceI hate painting flowers! I have tried and tried and they just don’t have that nice fluid look. So thanks Maury for another shot at it. I paint with almost all flat brushes. This is my third try this on this, this weekend. The painting is small, about 8x10, on Waterford paper with da Vinci paints.
Nina Blatt
"Untitled"
This painting is an odd size, 11x17.5. I have not named it, but it could easily be called The Vase from H... I have been working at capturing this vase for a long time, and this the closest I have come so far. I use Windsor Newton paints almost exclusive and always Arches paper, mostly 140lb. cold pressed (sometimes I use the 300lb. cold pressed).
Burt Purmell
"Flower and Butterfly"
Watercolor on Arches CP. 7"x9". I'm back to the watercolor medium! Have been busy getting used to it once again after quite a few years of mainly acrylics. I must say I missed that good old WC!
Barbara Sailor
"Ruffles and Flourishes"
Here is my answer to the Flower project. I call it “Ruffles and Flourishes” and it is 11” x 15”. I painted it on 140 lb. hot-pressed Arches watercolor paper, using mostly Holbein watercolors. Thank you so much for this opportunity to show our paintings and meet new people.
Susan Rose
"Garden Sentry
This 5x7, water color and gouache painting is based on a photo I took during the warmer days of summer. I was playing with my new digital camera, which has a nice macro capability, when I spied this little yellow sentry on my flowers. I normally am not a fan of spiders, if he was crawling on me I would have had a "willy attack", but here he was on a mission that was good. Besides, his yellow complimented the purple flowers!
Carol Prentiss
"You Have Touched Me . . . I Have Grown"
Best Wishes for a grand new year to all you wonderful artists who contribute
to this site. I'm dedicating my little flowers to you. Title:
"You have touched me. . .I have grown" I am happy to say, Arches
140# cold pressed paper, Holbein color and new bruses! A great way to start
the new year.
Geri Ward
"Untitled"
This is my submission for the Flowers Project, done on 9x12 140 lb. cold press Strathmore paper. It's a magnolia, drawn free hand, and very humbly submitted as a stubborn attempt by a rank amateur to paint a white flower. Thanks for these challenges...I certainly, at least, learned something about myself with this one!
Bonnie McBride
"The Sentinal"
This is painted from a Ref photo from my brother-in-laws garden, I painted it for Maurys' challenge, but I will also be putting it into my first show. It is painted on 1/4 sheet 300 lb with W&N and Daniel Smith paints.
Rich Stedman
"Untitled"
I am not much of a flower painter, but I managed
a bouquet for everybody! Here's hoping your New Year is a GREAT one!
Painted on Saunders Waterford 180 # CP 8" x 10".
Judy Silver
"Untitled"
This small painting was a great deal of fun to do. Thanks for the inspiration, Maury. I love these projects!
Frances Coleman
"Snowdrops"
Size: 11” x 4.5”, Winsor & Newton Watercolours. My attempt from a photograph I took a few years ago. I thought snowdrops would be appropriate for this time of year. I think perhaps I should have made the background a bit darker.
Deborah Holmes
"Hibiscus"
My flower project is painted on 8 1/2"x10" Yupo with American Journey Watercolors. Yupo is fun to use allowing paints to be alive with color. It's unpredictable nature makes for and interesting painting experience. Yupo will certainly teach you to "go with the flow" if you choose to try it. Happy "2008" to all of you. I have learned so much in this past year. A special thanks to Maury for his time and effort he puts into this site.
Frank Schneider
"Stargazer Lily"
Attached is my watercolor Stargazer Lily. It is 12 by 16 on Morilla 140# rag paper. I sign my paintings with the pseudonym, A.Gauche.(Pronounced Gah-Shay) If you look that up in the dictionary you will understand the joke. You may encourage your viewers to contact me via E-mail. Frank A Schneider.
Michelle Walker
"Patty's Iris"
12" x 16" 140lb rough Arches. I used a spirit card for the under
painting to keep the Iris loose and Daniel Smith watercolors to make everything
bright. Patty is a fellow artist in Barb Sailor's paint group. Her Iris' are
beautiful......
Chris Roberts
"Untitled"
hi, i painted this on some fibre board, using reeves water colours and some cadmium red acrylic, from winsor and newton
Sherry Thurner
"Winter Cyclamen"
Ppainted 15X20" on cold pressed Strathmore paper, with Winsor Newton watercolors. I wanted to try something a little out of character, something a little wilder than ususal for these cold gray days. I did a line drawing of a table of house plants in a dark violet, then painted in the shapes with a palette of cad yellow, cad red, viridian, ultramarine, and magenta. If I try something like this again I'll limit my colors even more.
Bev Stone
"Poppies in the Wind"
18X22 140 lb Arches cold press with Windsor Newton Watercolors
Dorothy Wagner
"Luster of Nature"
This is my favorite flower and I have tried my best to portray it as a true
beauty of Nature. The painting is 8 by 10 inches, on Bristol board that was
first primed with gesso, then textured, and painted with Winsor-Newton transparent
watercolors.
Charlie Morison
"Untitled"
As a little boy walking home from school, when I saw a wild rose for the first time in the Spring, I would pick one to take home to my Grandmother who was staying with us at that time. If you shut your eyes and smell one, you would know that it is a rose. I cut a 140 pound Arches watercolor pad to fit my scanner. I don't think I will do that again. I have been using American Journey watercolor paints.
Jo Strong
"Untitled"
Your flower challenge got me back to painting. This is watercolor on rice paper. It started as a tippy tulip from my photo, but I was not pleased with the results, so chopped off what I didn't like. Thanks for the fun.
Gloria Angelino
"Untitled"
Here is a study of a desert wildflower - Globe Mallow. It's not the best I've done, but it's a start in the right direction. I'd like to have more contrast in it, but was afraid I'd mess it up.
Georgina Jones
"Untitled"
I found a really interesting DVD on glazing and decided to "give it a go". I used Jack Richeson 140lb Cold Press paper. Winsor & Newton...... quinacridone gold, cobalt blue, permanent rose and antwerp blue. The painting you see is the result of considerable wiping out.....thanks to the paints used. Originally it was much too "gaudy" for the type of flower. It leaves a lot to be desired...especially the background, but I feel reassured that with a bit of practice some nice paintings could be produced.
Susan Osborn
"Untitled"
Oh! I love these projects! Thank you Maury. 11x17 140lb. cold press Arches I think. I used M.Graham quinacridone violet and Windsor hooker's green. From a photo by my husband, Bob Osborn.
Sallie Kratz
"Peace Rose"
One of my favorite roses and I also love painting them. Can't wait for spring to watch my roses bud out and start blooming. This is on a 12 X 16 Arches 90 lb. cold press paper using mostly Windsor Newton paints.
Patty Magoto
"Untitled"
This is on 140 cold press paper. I used MaimerBlu water color paints, with negitive painting. I also used an Elegant Writer. This was from memory of a magnolia bush in my yard.
Millie Carree
"Wyoming Wildflowers"
The painting was done on Strathmore Cold Press heavy weight paper. It's titled "Wyoming wildflowers". Ground flowers in front of a wheat field bloom in early spring on the plains of Wyoming state.
Jeni Smith
"Anggrek For Amy"
This is Anggrek For Amy and i painted it on 34"x29" cold pressed paper with Winsor Newton paints. The orchid is from my garden and I painted it for my mother.Anggrek is the Indonesian word for orchid and my mother is Amy :-).Thanks for a great project and the deadline so I actually keep working.
Maury Kettell
"Sunflower Camp"
This painting is from a photo I took while rafting the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho. You have to sign up for campsites when you put in, and Sunflower Camp was our third night on the river. We spent 6 days and 5 nights, covering a little over a hundred miles. Sunflower Camp was special because it was located at a hot spring and had several hot pools and a waterfall shower (image). Unfortunately the campsite was about 30 feet above the river and getting our camping equipment from the rafts was a bit of work. The order of painting was flower first, background, and then foreground. I went a little too dark on the flower petals with my first wash--the painting would have been better if I had done it right the first time.
Dee Lynch
"Bright Lilies"
Please find attached my painting, Bright Lilies, for this project. It is 10.5 inches by 13.5 inches, on arches 140pound cold press. I use DaVinci, Windsor Newton and Daniel Smith WC paints. I painted a bunch of lilies from a flower show using bright colors to cheer me up as we still have snow on the ground, even though the Calendar says it's "spring".
More paintings to come