Re: first watercolor painting for 2011 [1 Attachment]

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Beautiful! SharonThis email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects. To: mserslife Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 8:22:33 PMSubject: first watercolor painting for 2011 [1 Attachment]

<*>[Attachment(s) from Donna included below]I hope 2011 is off to a good start for you all. I have attached my first watercolor painting for 2011. I drew it on the day before yesterday and started painting it yesterday and finished today. I have a friend who will be having her birthday on the 7th. She gave me an art kit for my birthday. But, I did not use the paints in the kit for this card. I used my favorite watercolor paints. Mt. Rainier is the highest mountain in Washington. I've been as far as the Paradise visitor's center. I'm not a mountain climber, though. Donna in WA <*>Attachment(s) from Donna:<*> 1 of 1 Photo(s) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MSersLife/attachments/folder/1042375972/item/list <*> Mt.------------------------------------

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Very nice!

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nne

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-----Original Message-----From: djnova50@...Sent: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 19:22:33 -0800 (PST)To: mserslife Subject: first watercolor painting for 2011 [1 Attachment]

I hope 2011 is off to a good start for you all. I have attached my first watercolor painting for 2011. I drew it on the day before yesterday and started painting it yesterday and finished today. I have a friend who will be having her birthday on the 7th. She gave me an art kit for my birthday. But, I did not use the paints in the kit for this card. I used my favorite watercolor paints. Mt. Rainier is the highest mountain in Washington. I've been as far as the Paradise visitor's center. I'm not a mountain climber, though. Donna in WA

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Beautiful, Donna! I love the colors you used.Thank you for sharing your gift with us. Do you use pencil for drawing then watercolor over it? Don't the lines show through the paint? I'm just confused, and also someone who has tried her hand at watercolor, oil and acrylic. Drawing/sketching with charcoal and pencil are my favorite.That was kind of your friend to give you an art kit. love, KateTo: mserslife Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 10:22:33 PMSubject: first watercolor painting for 2011 [1 Attachment]

I hope 2011 is off to a good start for you all. I have attached my first watercolor painting for 2011. I drew it on the day before yesterday and started painting it yesterday and finished today. I have a friend who will be having her birthday on the 7th. She gave me an art kit for my birthday. But, I did not use the paints in the kit for this card. I used my favorite watercolor paints. Mt. Rainier is the highest mountain in Washington. I've been as far as the Paradise visitor's center. I'm not a mountain climber, though.

Donna in WA

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Thank you,Sharon, nne, Kate, and , for commenting.

Kate, sometimes when I do a watercolor painting and have an imaginary scene in

my brain, I do not start with a drawing. I just start putting paint to paper.

If I am working from a photograph, or several photographs, I will use Photoshop

Elements to combine the elements of each photo that I want to use. I can adjust

the scale up or down as I am working with Photoshop Elements. If a photo I want

to use doesn't need any editing, other than maybe background changes, then I

will just use the photo. I don't like to make grid marks on my watercolor

paper, so I will draw lines up and down as well as across, making the squares

about 1 inch, unless there is a lot of detail work that needs to be done. Then

I will make the squares smaller.

Generally, the photo is smaller than I want the finished painting to be, so I

will, make larger squares on some tracing paper. Then I will just copy from the

photo onto the tracing paper. I use a grid; because it helps to keep the scale

right. After the drawing has been transferred to the tracing paper, I line it

up with my watercolor paper, then tape securely along one side. Or, at least

near the top and the bottom of one side. Then I will use graphite paper or a

number 8B, or similar soft graphite pencil to cover the back of the tracing

paper. When that is done, I will use a fine point red ink pen and draw around

the important elements of the drawing. It just depends on how precise the

finished painting needs to be and whether I am doing it for somebody else or for

myself.

, color theory is one thing that I'm really good with. All that is really

necessary is 7 colors: Warm and Cool Primary colors plus Quinacridone Burnt

Orange. I use Extra Fine Watercolors and I buy Susie Short's basic

set. The colors included in the set: Quinacridone Rose, Phthalo Blue, and

Hansa Yellow Medium for the Cool Primary colors; Pyrrol Orange, New Gamboge, and

French Ultramarine for the Warm Primary colors; and Quinacridone Burnt Orange,

which is a good color to use with the French Ultramarine, if I want to make

brown.

Color theory is a fascinating subject and I can generally mix up any color I

want with these basic 7 colors in my palette.

Donna in WA

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Beautiful Donna. I still say you should call yourself an artist and sell some of your work. Altho if I were able to paint so well, I'd probably want to keep everything ... hugs, Cait

first watercolor painting for 2011 [1 Attachment]

I hope 2011 is off to a good start for you all. I have attached my first watercolor painting for 2011. I drew it on the day before yesterday and started painting it yesterday and finished today. I have a friend who will be having her birthday on the 7th. She gave me an art kit for my birthday. But, I did not use the paints in the kit for this card. I used my favorite watercolor paints. Mt. Rainier is the highest mountain in Washington. I've been as far as the Paradise visitor's center. I'm not a mountain climber, though. Donna in WA