watercolor, 2016
available, 11"x15"
From a Google Maps Street View image acquired but not used during Virtual Paintout's Napa Valley month.
The way I see things in watercolor, gouache, charcoal, ink, graphite, pastels and a few pixels
Showing posts with label winery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winery. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2017
Roadside Vineyard - watercolor
From a Google Maps Street View image acquired but not used during Virtual Paintout's Napa Valley month.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Angie #35 - watercolor
watercolor, 2016
nfs, 7"x11"
Another portrait of my beautiful bride. I've very happy with how the shadows on her face and reflections on her sunglasses worked. The reference photo was taken by her BFF several years ago on a girls outing to the Grove Winery in Gibsonville NC, a one-time favorite haunt of theirs.
Monday, June 20, 2016
Castello di Amorosa - watercolor
watercolor, 2016
available, 11"x15"
This easily could be in Tuscany instead of Napa Valley, California. The Castello di Amorosa is a castle and winery presumably authentic in (most) details near Calistoga CA. Virtual Paintout is in Napa Valley this month. I'm opting for this beautiful location because, try as I might, I just can't paint grape vines to my liking. I'm not even happy with these trees. That's part of the reason I've been on such a landscape bender the last year or so. I'm trying to get better at something I used to avoid.
Porta Del Castello
available, 9"x12"
This one is closer to my comfort zone. No trees, grass or sky to screw up. It's a bit smaller, done in a 9x12 sketch book. I've lately been using a watercolor Visual Journal from Strathmore. I like the cold-pressed texture and the general construction. It has very thick, stiff pressboard covers and is wire-bound to allow flat opening or flipping the forward pages completely under the page you're working on (like wire-bound composition books in school). This is Strathmore paper, though. And a SKETCH book. This paper can't handle too many layers or corrections. You need to get it right in two or three layers or just understand that sketches aren't meant to be finished masterpieces (though many can be). Beyond that, I like this paper for my uses better than some other brands.
Monday, October 13, 2014
Banner Elk - watercolor
watercolor, 2014
original available, 8"x10" $100
This one is painted from a photo I shot at the Banner Elk Winery here in North Carolina several years ago, so long ago, in fact, that it was shot on film. I shot several photos while we were there with an eye toward painting them later. This is the first -- and will probably be the only -- one I've actually painted. I hit it loose and more suggestively. I'm trying to move away from being a camera myself - at least sometimes.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
Friday, December 20, 2013
By The Glass - watercolor
watercolor, 2012
original available - 18"x24" $400
This was painted from a photo I set up and took at The Grove Winery's Reds, Whites and Blues Festival in 2012.
Friday, December 13, 2013
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
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