Charcoal Watercolor Sketches

Watercolor on sketchbook paper, 5.5″x8.5″ I recently got a new Chinese brush from Paragon and I made these sketches using German Vine Black (PBk8, made from charcoal) watercolor from Rublev. Continue reading →

Hidden Waterfall

Watercolor on 140lb rough paper, 11″x15″ I made a copy of a small portion of a Chinese landscape painting in my watercolor book. The original painting is black and white. Continue reading →

Nebelwald 3

Watercolor on 140lb rough paper, 10″x15″ Last night I made my first painting in a large book of watercolor paper that was made in India from recycled paper. I’ve had Continue reading →

Three Trees on the River

Oil on linen, 5″x7″ This is a rough copy of a painting of poplar trees by Monet. I made a few changes to it because I’m not interested in making Continue reading →

Nebelwald 2

Oil on canvas, 7″x5″ It’s been awhile since I last painted Nebelwald, but it has many of my favorite things, so here’s another view of it. As last time I Continue reading →

Red Ochre Oil Paints

PR101 and PR102 (Pigment Red 101 and 102) are among my favorite pigments for paint and they come in a large variety of colors. PR102 is a natural red iron Continue reading →

Bird House

Lately the birds have been looking for places to build nests, and my neighbor mentioned that there’s always a lot of competition for the bird house that she has. Since Continue reading →

Falling Water

Black gouache on canvas, 5″x7″ The rocks are based on a painting that’s in my book of Korean landscape paintings, and the waterfall is based on some waterfalls that I Continue reading →

Many Sketches

Scans of my sketchbook pages. Even though they’re normal sketchbooks meant for pencils and pens I use a lot of paint in them. Some of these are watercolor, some are Continue reading →

Gold Mountains

Mixed media, 5″x7″ I wanted to experiment more with my Golden fiber paste, so this time I mixed it with gold acrylic paint (also from Golden) on a palette before Continue reading →