the road to 50
ALT: watercolor landscape – a road sweeps past a row of blooming daylilies, toward a line of forest trees.
23 July 2026
Category Archives: watercolor
20 July 2026
miss it
ALT: watercolor landscape, round mountains seen over an expanse of sparkling lake, with dark trees leaning in on the right side.
18 July 2026
tired – still dancing
ALT: watercolor and water-soluble crayon. sort of expressionist picture of a person with a pretty grim expression waving their arms around.
17 July 2026
high summer has arrived
ALT: watercolor – daylilies, queen anne’s lace, and chicory flowers among the green.
13 July 2026
picnic on green
ALT: ink and watercolor. two beings that could be bugs seem to be sharing beverages and company on a ground of leaves and blue swooshes.
12 July 2026
bracken reflection
ALT: watercolor based on a photo of ferns reflected in still lake water. the painting is very loose and sketchy, and I don’t think the actual reflections came off clearly, so I put in an extra dragonfly to make up for it.
9 July 2026
remember yesterday’s art? well here it is again with a lot more stuff on it.
July ATCs, finished.
ALT: mixed media. a grid of 9 rectangles. on a ground of soft curves of color there are masses of calligraphic black ink imaginary writing, and on top of that, the alphabet is painted in bold acrylic colors, outlined in black ink.
8 July 2026
July ATCs – wip
I have plans for more layering on this ground before the cards get cut up.
ALT: a grid of 9 rectangles 2.5″ x 3.5″ with some leftover space. watercolor, abstract. loosely colored circles and curves, sprinkled with some numbers and letters. all shapes traced around templates and french curves. I’m just playing.
7 July 2026
June ATCs.
I’m a month behind on my Artist Trading Cards, so here is my first of two efforts to catch back up.
Stretching out vacation in my mind.
ALT: watercolor page, with a grid of 9 rectangles drawn in pencil, and 3 rows of lake, shore, and distant mountains painted in. I’ll be cutting this into 9 cards to send out to friends in my ATC group; hopefully each rectangle will have something at least pleasantly evocative in it.
6 July 2026
atop rattlesnake
I think I must paint this tree every year, or at least take a photo. I like the way watercolors do what they want, and I can’t spend a lot of time worrying about it. (surely more serious artists have a lot more control of the medium, but I enjoy its spontaneity)
ALT: watercolor depicting a tree on a rocky ground, with a mountain range in the background (old New England mountains, not the jagged forbidding kind) if you look closely there’s a person standing by the tree, almost transparent.
