Welcome to the Jul-Sep 2006 Project. The theme for this project will be "Landscape." 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 Sep 30, 2006.
The images on this page are protected by copyright law. Any use without the expressed consent of the artist is prohibited!!!
Carol Carter
"Highway 95"
Watercolor, 12"x 60".
Jesus Roybal
"Island at Rest"
Water media and ink, 14" X 11". I did it especially for this project, once I got started I couldn't stop.
Susan Rose
"Wabaunsee County"
"Landscape" is what inspires me, part of the reason I love where we live in Kansas. The landscape cries out to be captured in any media. This is a scene from a photo I took not too far from our farm. The rolling hills outlined by short shurbs and trees in the ravines, the dirt road weaves its way to the horizon. Thanks for another fun project, and once again stimulating me out of my slumber to get me to paint!
Mª josé Barrera Garrido
"Jardin de la Buhaira"
Size is 35 x 45 cm. Using Arches paper with Rembrandt paints.
Richard Schilling
"Wyoming Barn"
Painting is 13 x 18 inches. I painted this at a recent Barnes & Noble booking signing. It was done in a vertical position on an easel because it was a demonstration. I used a surfactant to increase my wet-on-wet working time to one hour. The surface was then dried and the dry brush detail of Canada geese were quickly added.
Burt Purmell
"Old One Room Schoolhouse"
This is a scene several miles away that I
always wanted to paint and finally got the chance.
Acrylic Watermedia, 8"x10."
Charlie Morison
"Going Swimming"
This is my painting "Going Swimming" from last Saturday. A group of painters go out on Saturday to paint. This was a cool day with the sound of children having fun at the beach. To the left of the picture is a fenced off area with lifeguards and people actually swimming or standing in the water. What a wonderful day to spend sitting at the beach or even better, painting at the beach.
Steve Hughes
"Sailing into Buchart"
This is a scene from a small cove at Buchart Gardens near Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. 7" x 9" on Arches 140# Cold Pressed from my Windsor Newton spit box. Used a 1" flat brush, a #8 round and the little brush that came with the box. (I was pretending to paint "en plein aire" with a small kit I've put together but inside and from a photo;-) The paints that came with the box are student quality so they are pretty pale. I'm trying to use them up and replace them with professional quality. I really like the scene so I may try again with "real" equipment.
Virginia Potter
"Childhood Toys and Sandy Boys"
I enjoy both watercolors and acrylics, depending on my mood. I'm a fast and furious painter, not slowing down until I get to the details. I used Utrecht acrylics on 32 x 36 inch untempered hardboard. I enjoyed painting this one of my two boys at play on Greers Ferry Lake across from Pryor Mountain in the Ozark foothills in Arkansas, where I was born. I blocked it in outdoors, putting in the big shapes while the light was good, then finished it in the studio.
Georgina Jones
"Untitled"
I've been trying to loosen up and I might have just loosened up a bit too much in this painting, but it was fun and very relaxing. I have to admit that I studied a DVD by artist Geoff Kersey of the U.K because I liked his style and I need all the help I can get. I used Winsor Newton140 cold pressed, and Winsor Newton paints.....lot of wet on wet technique ,and masking for some of the tree trunks.
Charles Falk
"Oak Island"
I have enclosed a submission for the Landscape
Project, July - Sept, 2006.Let me know your thoughts....
thanks.
Dorothy Wagner
"Untitled"
This summer I am doing a lot of outdoor painting
throughout the country side near my home. Most of what I have been doing is
in oil, which is a new medium for me. However I did this one especially for
your project in my old stand by --- transparent watercolor. This is a wonderful
place - many miles along this river is the "Port Huron State Game Area".
No houses, man made structures or roads -- only trails where you can walk
and enjoy nature. And I must say a popular place for artists. Oh! be sure
to take along the bug spray.
Lynn Lumley
This was painted from two different photos taken in north GA. The cabin was from one and the mountains and trees from another. Painted on 300lb Lanaquarelle paper with Windsor Newton paints.
Jo Strong
"Untitled"
Hi Maury, so glad for this challenge! This pond and the gardens were beautiful! Made a great photograph. I was quickly reminded of the dangers of trying to paint from a perfect photo. This is on arches 300lb. paper. 10x14". Paints are Winser Newton. Should have listened when an artist friend suggested I start all over. Would welcome comments.
Judith Silver
"Untitled"
My contribution to the Landscape Project is
a painting done from a photograph borrowed from an instructor, Mark Silvers,
after taking a course with him. I held on to the photo and was inspired to
make an attempt to paint it when I saw the current project. By the way, Mark
was a wonderful teacher and I encourage anyone who can to take one of his
workshops. For me, the painting is a big step forward, although I feel that
some of the darks are a little heavy-handed. It is on hot press paper and
is 9 x 13.
I enjoy these projects tremendously. Many thanks.
Sherry Thurner
"Untitled"
Here's my try at a landscape. It's 11X14, on Arches hot press paper. My goal was to capture my my affection for summer. This is a farm field with huge bales of hay and fence row weeds in the foreground.
Frank A. Schneider
"Untitled"
Attached is 12 x 16 watercolor for the landscape project. Work was done on Arches 140# cold pressed paper. Adam Gauche is a pseudonym with which I sign my paintings. My real name Frank A. Schneider and if you look up the word gauche in the dictionary, you'll undestand the joke.
Fran Grilli
"Appalachian Trail"
I did the painting from a photo of the Appalachian Trail in Bear Mountain, N.Y., where I walked many times. It is on Arches, 7" x 10", 140 lb, cold press block, painted with Holbein and Schminchke watercolors. Thank you for the wonderful project site.
Wallie Suvachittanont
"Untitled"
I have been visiting your web for years but
did not have the gut to send one of my painting. I started learning from 0
for a while. This is the paining of the glacia in China I visited since last
May. Your comment is appreciated.Wallie Suvachittanont, 100/156 Chaiyapruek
village 1, Koom Kloa Rd. Lart Krabung,
Bangkok 10520.
Rich Stedman
"A Trio of Aspen"
Here is my entry. Painted on Waterford 140# 11" x 14" paper and transparent watercolors. Used a touch of white gouache on some of the tree limbs. This is a different painting for me as I did not make the birch trees in realistic colors. I like them much better this way.
Sallie Kratz
"The 14th Green"
Found a photo of this golf course in my files
and thought it would be a fun landscape painting to do. I just changed the
season from the photo, and did it on 14" X 20" Arches Cold Press
paper, using Windsor Newton paints. Enjoyed the project...Wish I could get
back into the golf game again!
Richie Gunn
"Field Gate Road"
I painted this mostly wet in wet after I got
caught in a rain storm, and my paper and myself got a bit wet.
It's painted on 300# arches paper using windsor newton limited pallet . This
trip had some real fun moments. I'm so glad it did not rain on the way back
from the scene .
Ray Annino
"Lonely Pine"
Here is my sept. submission. The scene is in the far Northwest. Painted pretty much wet into wet on 140 lb. Waterford CP.
Michelle Himes
"The Artists' Island"
This painting was done from a photo I took last summer on a trip to Monhegan Island, frequently referred to as "The Artists' Island". It was an overcast day, so my photo did not have any shadows and I had to invent them. I hope they are believeable. The painting is 15x22 on Arches rough paper.
Tracy Thorpe
"Old Bridge"
I hope you don't mind having a complete beginner along for the ride! All the other pictures on this site are awesome so I'm a bit daunted but also very inspired. I just started painting for the first time a few weeks ago having bought David Bellamy's excellent book Watercolour Landscape Course. This painting is from an excercise in David Bellamy's book so I can't take credit for the composition, but I wanted to send it in to your page as it is the first painting I've ever done that I felt I could let other people see!
Carol Haywood
"Canyon"
Being in the middle of settling into a new home and studio, I just today found the time to work on a landscape from my southwestern trip in June and send it to you. Here is "Canyon", done with my usual Arches 300 lb paper, 20 x 14 size, and mostly Winsor Newton transparent, staining watercolors. I especially was drawn to the hazy atmosphere, which reduced most contrasts except for the shaded cliffs. Putting aside my main subject of local boats, to work with different kinds of technical problems and another mood isn't easy. But I find the challenge stimulating. And I truly left part of my soul out there in the Great Basin. You must see it if you haven't, for a unique encounter with landscape and sky.
Paul Axtell
"Fishing with Eby"
Attached is my painting for September.
Frank Murphy
"Forgotten Siding"
My Jul-Sep 2006 Landscape project is attached. The painting was done on Lana 140# R; size is 15" X 22"; with mainly W/N watercolors. As always, these projects help me get started and usually result in one or two similar paintings, check-out my website. I am looking forward to the next challenge.
Cathy Joerger
"Bridge at Beaugency"
Attached is my contribution to the Landscape Project 2006. Title: "Bridge at Beaugency". It was on this bridge in May, 1945 that the Germans gave up to the Americans - amazing to think that a war was fought on this beautiful land not so long ago. Beaugency, France - Loire Valley. The paper is 140 lb CP Arches, the paints are Winsor Newton and Daniel Smith
Maury Kettell
"Owl Creek Pass"
Owl Creek Pass is southeast of Ridgeway, Colorado, in a section of the San Juan mountain range called the Sawtooths. The severe erosion of the high mountain peaks creates the jagged sawtooth effect. This was painted on Arches 140lb Rough. I use mostly Winsor Newton and Daniel Smith watercolor. The size is 11" x 15".
Sue Manson
"Untitled"
This is a friend's yard and garden in Virginia. Thanks for doing this, it must take quite a lot of your time. The picture is painted on Arches and is 10" by 14".
Geri Ward
"Untitled"
Nothing like the absolute last minute to submit my landscape...very very new at this. Used 140 lb. Canson paper, Koi paints, tried mostly glazing and wet on wet for sky. Just an imagined landscape.
Project Closed