Atmospheric photos

Turner's atmospheric painting

Drawings from sketchbooks

More encaustic processes: Twilight's last gleaming

 

More encaustic processes: The ramparts we watched

 

Reflections in Encaustic painting

 

Art Camp in July!!!

Beautiful artwork from the week at Art Camp.....ages 6 to 10....what great work!!!! Hope you like it!

Winter Sunsets

Inspired by the beautiful winter sunsets of snow and reflected light in glowing pinks, oranges, yellows and blues, students created paintings in acrylic paint and watercolor. The black acrylic paint acts as a resist for the layered washes of watercolor. It's a great way to get some amazing results!  I hope you can try this! Tell me what you think.

• With pencil, draw the line that will separate the sky from the hill.
• Paint the house, trees, and bushes on top of the hill using black acrylic paint. It is very important to use acrylic paint and not tempera since the acrylic acts as a resist for the watercolor.
• Also paint the texture on the hill with short black brushstrokes. (Again acrylic)
• Then with watercolor paints, start with a wet wash of blue at the top. Continue down the sky towards the top of the hill using red, oranges, and yellow or any other combination.   
• Pick a color( red, orange, blue, or yellow) that will act as the reflection of the sunset on snow and create a watered down wash. In these paintings a watered down wash of red was used.
• Add any finishing touches and you're done!