Sail away… Elaine’s #9

Sail away - Elaine's #9 landscape

This is one of the paintings I did in class. It is a watercolor on 9×12 300 lbs Kilimanjaro Paper.

comments please…

I’m looking for some feedback…

I’ve taken a very part time job as a painting instructor for beginner /Sunday painters.  I receive a lesson plan for step by step instructions from the company,  for painting a landscape, still life or seascape, from a reference photo.   The first class I’ll be teaching is landscape.  We’ll go through each step of the painting as a class and at the end, each student leaves with a finished painting.  The classes are 2 hours long.

The first class is a landscape and this is the reference photo:

I’m excited about the job but not very excited about my paintings.  Below are my 2 attempts.

I like the sky in the first one and parts of the tree trunks.  (although the color of #2 is off a bit from the camera)

I’m interested in any  and all comments you may have.

Thanks!

Judy

The Loire Seen from the Bridge in Amboise

This one is quite large. Number 37.

OOPs – a friend asked me why I put pine trees near the Loire – in the heat of the painting it just happened.  I am currently re-working this one.  I transformed them back to poplars, but in the process messed up all the shapes and values.  This one will be a learning experience. I almost took it down, but that seems dishonest somehow.

Jack on the Beach … Elaine’#8

Jack Russell on the Beach

What better way to chase away a gray rainy day… paint a beach scene and include a Jack Russell… This is on 9×12 300lbs Kilimanjaro watercolor paper.

Sky Study

I’m calling this a landscape because there is a horizon in it….The camera filtered out all the yellow tones for some reason, and made the clouds look green.

I’m up to 36 now.

Dunes – #7 for Elaine

Watercolor Landscape #7

Just a little Dunes painting… I used raw sienna, it doesn’t look this yellow in person even so I’m not particularly happy with this ‘sand’ color.

I’m still here!

I just have had a hard time getting back into painting (not to mention blogging and even visiting blogs).  Anyway, I have finally broken through to the other side of whatever was keeping me from painting, and am thus able to present numbers 34 and 35 on this journey to 100 landscapes.

We had a gorgeous autumn here in Touraine this year.  A few weeks ago, while I was out walking with my sons Damien and Paul, a storm rolled in in the distance, creating a thrilling contrast between the dark stormclouds and the gold afternoon light we’d had until then. Luckily we were armed with a camera.  I think Damien took the photos.  Here is my feeble attempt to paint the scene.

I was thrilled to have finally finished a painting, but felt there was too much detail in it, so I did another one.

And now all I feel like doing is painting.

 

Still Water #6 …

Elaine's #6 of 100

It has been a LONG dry spell of not painting anything at all… I bought Stirling Edwards book ‘Watercolor Landscapes’ and that book inspired this painting of still water. I want to start painting more… I’ve missed it.

#29 and 30!

7×10 watercolor and pencil in my sketchbook

7×10 watercolor and ink in my sketchbook

I’ve got 70 more landscapes to go….
wow and I was feeling really good about getting to 30.
But, when I think of how many more I’ve got to do …..70 sounds huge!

I like the composition of the top one — any thoughts?

#28 At the Farm