Watercolor Green: The Mary Ellen Fern
Watercolor Foliage Greens: The Mary Ellen Fern I Mary Ellen Fern, Watercolor Greens debi riley Watercolor foliage Simple design, simple color palette. Its plain. Its simple. Mary Ellen……. my...
View ArticleDiablo! Inks and Watercolor
Diablo Lake. Cobalt Teal Blue waters set against a backdrop of high ragged mountains of the North Cascade ranges. July Day 4 #worldwatercolormonth Diablo Lake. Cobalt Teal. Watercolor/Ink Mountains...
View ArticleCadmium Imagination
It could be scarlet fire. For those who wish it to be engulfing flames. #WorldWatercolorMonth But really its just me, playing with cadmium red and prussian blue watercolors. Using my preferred...
View ArticleHer Name was July
ancient Queen of Summer robed red against the cobalt sky July, all languid and full of summer……. Her Name was July July and as, all her days began to frolic throughout the month so lovely and...
View ArticleMidnight, Ink Stained Face of Watercolor
An ‘Experiment.’ I love experimenting with paints! Testing. Researching watercolor papers, watercolor brands and colors, oils, acrylics and mediums. Its a surprise, this rolling the dice. Could it...
View ArticleWatercolor: Creative Texture
Would you like to know a few simple steps and techniques to be able to create a more visually stimulating watercolor painting? Collage, is a wonderful solution for the creative and the imaginative...
View ArticleSparkling Watercolor Flower
Easy and fast. I really like this watercolor flower technique when pressed for time. Its a simple thing to get out the Rekab #2 320s watercolor brush and mix up a couple of pretty colors!...
View ArticleMy 5 Steps to Abstract Painting
31 Days of May and the painting pressure is on! But, it seems The Muse of Abstraction has shown her face today. Yet, I had secretly hoped for the arrival of the Muse “Delight in the Dance.” And that...
View ArticleWatercolor Semi Abstract Landscape
“Today’s weather forecast: dry barren parched, with a slim thread of a chance of rain.” I peer out the window, from the small airplane flying over the Australian Outback scrublands – and look below...
View Article31 Muses Part II Painting
A slow dance of the warm and golden flower petals. Softly, the delicate petals fade along the grooved and finely textured watercolor paper’s edges and borders. Soft Petals, watercolor abstract,...
View ArticleViridian Green Watercolors – Part II
Gorgeous and glittering greens in watercolor. Deep Jade, emerald, teal, sage, moss green, olive, aquamarine, viridian. All of these wonderful variations, are just so lovely. And, the process of...
View ArticleColors of Green: Watercolors
Inspiration was sparked, by the feeling my Contemplative Photograph collage had evoked. And now, the color green beckoned for more. Emerald Green Sydney Water The Color Green is Relaxing Green...
View ArticleCobalt Teal…’can’t keep away from the flame’
“Won’t you walk with me awhile, put a smile on my face….gonna keep coming back again. There’s no denyin’ can’t keep away from the flame.” My thoughts about the watercolor paint, Cobalt Teal Blue! The...
View ArticleCobalt Teal Blue in Flowers
Floral Watercolor paintings created in a free and colorful impressionist approach; one is ‘hot’ and one is ‘cool.’ Cobalt Teal Blue pg50 Daniel Smith is my key ingredient….no surprise to many of...
View ArticleFresh Spring Watercolor Azaleas
Spring is such a lively, energised time of the year! Glorious bursts of bright yellow green dot the landscape as fresh new buds pop out. Spring Azaleas in Watercolor New Spring Azaleas, Debi Riley...
View ArticleMagical Mists: Monday Watercolors
Monday morning. ‘Magical Mists’ rise from the shoreline thinning to veils of vapor. With a mere blink, a flicker of an eye and they have vanished. Watercolor’s Cobalt teal blue teases, upon water and...
View ArticleSilly Saturday Watercolor Collage
A Watercolor Collage of papers, bright bold with ragged torn edges. Undulating shapes that could be hills and foliage layering the landscape in vibrant violet. Watercolor Collage Watercolor Collage...
View ArticleWays With Watercolor II Trees
Ways with Watercolor continues with more ideas on altering formats and designs, but this time with previous paintings of trees. A Place Not Yet Ways With Watercolor – Trees This first painting in...
View ArticleWays With Watercolor
A wonderful thing about watercolors…. you can crop them to create seemingly miraculous recoveries! Floral White I posted this Gordonia Watercolor painting some time ago, in its original format. But...
View ArticleWatercolor Contemplations
Watercolor landscapes to stir the imagination, relax and think of zen! Wonderfully colored skies, delicate shrouded marshlands and the tree that stands as a lone sentinel lead my mind into delightful...
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