Thanksgiving Greeting Card Give-Away

Happy Thanksgiving!

To express my thanks and appreciation to my students, followers, and newsletter subscribers I'm having a little Thank You Give-Away. All you need to do to participate is enter!!

ENTER HERE

The prize, if I can call it that, is a set of my best selling Winter Holiday/Christmas Cards. The set of ten cards shown below contains five images with two cards of each image with matching envelopes in a clear gift box.


Entries will end at midnight November 30, 2010. The winner will be announced the first day of the month...December 1, 2010 here on my Splashes and Splatters Blog.

You are invited to join my blog followers so you don't miss the announcement!

GOOD LUCK!!!

Susie

Hints and Tips for Painting Waves in watercolor

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What is it?
My second DVD on painting waves.
See the You Tube trailer on the top right >>>>>>

Hint's and Tips for Painting Waves in Watercolor

There simply wasn't enough space in the first DVD to say and show everything I want to share, so I put together another DVD workshop with more tips and practice exercises to show more options for painting the parts of a wave. This new DVD is 1 hour and 38 minutes. It is quite different from the first wave DVD called Making Waves.

Hints and tips for Painting Waves in Watercolor is an informative fun filled video workshop using basic watercolor techniques and the easy to follow practice exercises for learning how to paint each part of a wave. I will demonstrate how to use three different brushes and several brush stroke techniques so you can find a method to that works best for you and your style of painting. I will also share some of my special tricks and special effects to help you reserve and recover whites as you paint frothy foam and splashing sea spray.

For those of you who would like to have a printed version of the practice exercises I demonstrate during the DVD workshop Hint's and Tips for Painting Waves, there is a companion workbook available. (Sold separately) This loose leaf 33 page workbook is designed to be used along with the DVD or can be used as a stand alone resource.
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Introductory price $16.99 plus s/h

Mt Rainier Painting SHORT Trip

SHORT TRIP to Mt Rainier 2010

This years trip to the mountain to paint the wildflowers on Mount Rainier was a wonderful experience. The wildflowers were a little late this summer due to the late snow melt, so I suspect we would have seen more blooms the following weekend, but we certainly could not complain about our weather this year! It was gorgeous!

There were four of us painting from the parking lot at the Sunrise Visitor's Center on Saturday Above are: Hilary, Lori and Terry applying brush to paper and behold (!) here we are with our paintings!

We will go again next summer maybe you can join us!

Hilary, Terry and Lori at Mt Rainier.

Oh my! Spring Tulips!

Oh, what a welcome sight! Tulips Blooming!

The calendar says spring has sprung and when you see the tulips starting to pop up it's not hard to imagine that the winter is really behind us and warmer temps are just around the corner. My Tuesday Afternoon Watercolor class got their brushes wet this past week and painted some beautiful tulips from last year's photos. This is a work-in-progress shot of a tulip painting I started as a demo.
Here is a tip for painting red tulips in the sunshine. Paint the tulips yellow first, then glaze the red paint over the bright yellow tulips. You might like the variety of the mixed colors and decide to leave some yellow as you see in the example above. It's not completely finished, but I do like what I see so far!
I can't wait to go to the tulip fields to see them in full bloom this year! It won't be long the daffodils are blooming now and the tulips are not far behind.

Another Wave...This one is for Vicki

This is my Spring SWAP painting for my partner Vicki Greene.

Sharing With Artist Partners is a wonderful spin-off group of artists from my Watercolor Workshop group. Both are international groups with artists members from around the world. We exchange paintings each quarter (4 times a year) and this is our 25th SWAP. Our paintings are all 5" x 7 " watercolors.

I'm still waiting for my SWAP painting and wondering where it will be coming from???

It's almost like Christmas .... very exciting and a lot of fun!

Happy Painitng Everyone!

SUSIE

Sunset Sky with Tree Silhouettes

This was my demo for my Wednesday night class. I promised the class I would share it when I finished it. The reference for this painting was a photo I took near Deception Pass at sunset overlooking the Straight of Juan de Fuca, Washington State.

When you paint a beautiful sunset sky with nice reflections it can be very challenging to add the dark silhouetes tree shapes in the forground. But quite often the drama is worth the challenge!

The painting is 11" x 15" Arches 140# CP paper using Daniel Smith Watercolors painted with my 1" Susie Brush and a #4 rigger.

Painting Skies and Clouds

This coming weekend (March 13-14) I will host a weekend workshop for artists who have a 9-5 job in another career. It is really hard for working people to find classes on the weekends so I'm trying to fill this void in my own special way. If you live in the Seattle area I'd like to invite you to join me and take a weekend watercolor workshop. (Even if you don't work at another job!)

Our topic for this workshop will be painting watercolor skies. If all goes as planned we will end up with at least nine or more skies to use on future landscape painitngs. These are a few of my skies and clouds "starts" that came from my paintbrush in preparing for the class.

And speaking of future landscapes....the April weekend workshop (April 10-11) is on painting "Landscape Elements" ( trees, rocks, mountains, bushes, grasses, etc) Join us if you can! Register here.

Happy Painting!

Keep those brushes wet!

SUSIE