Found Triangles
Do you see all the triangles in this painting? It was rather unique how I came across them and I’m not one to draw out those type of structures, but when I looked at this photo of Myra Brandt who used to work with my husband, I thought this would make a good...Gloxinia
A long time ago, someone gave me this beautiful gloxinia plant and I decided to do a painting of it. I set it out on the patio in good lighting and used a painting knife to paint it onto a 16 x 20 inch masonite board. I thought this was a very simple painting to do...Mailbox Cluster on Mt. Helix
This seems to happen to me a lot of times… I’ll see something that I want to paint, and then it vanishes and isn’t there anymore. I took a picture of these mail boxes when I used to live in the Mt. Helix area. When I actually got ready to make a...Marie Wordell Watercolor Class
Way back in the 1980’s I took a class from Marie Wordell and she had a live model for us to do one day. The model was wearing a very colorful costume. It was a Spanish costume, so you can imagine how many colors it had and a colorful head scarf besides. Oh no! I...David Millard Copy
When a person is eager to learn all they can about watercolor and art and even copies from paintings in a book, it is a privilege. One thing to be sure to do when you copy is to put the name of the original artist along with your own name. About 10 years after I did...No Palette!
This is about that black and white watercolor that didn’t show up very well in the previous story that I posted. Â It is not easy to paint a scene in front of you with no colors to use, but a good exercise for an artist to just look at dark and light values and...Everything So Rosey
I didn’t know any better, but soon learned not to paint with my sunglasses on! They made everything so pretty and rosey looking, I just loved it. When I would get home after being out painting on location I wondered why my colors looked so blaw. Well, I soon...A Single Cloud
It is fun to look at the clouds and see if you can see anything that represents an image, like maybe an animal, a face, or whatever. Some of my early art lessons were of this kind of game, to find an image on the canvas that had an underpainting on it and capture...Proof of the Fish
Way back when I was in Marie Wordell’s watercolor class in the late 1980’s, we had a lesson about Gyotaku. It has to do with putting paint on a real fish and then stamping that onto paper to prove how big your fish that you caught actually was. That way...Recent Interview
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