New Watercolor Bag

I made a new bag to carry my watercolors in. The hardest part was sewing the division down the center to divide it into two compartments.

Splash!

My father and I launched Morgaine in Annapolis today and I rowed her to my slip in Eastport. Morgaine is my ten foot dinghy that I built ten years ago. She is set up to row and to sail, but I will not step her mast and rig her until the weather gets warmer. For now, I'm just going to take her out under oars on nice days. I paint many of my watercolors while on this boat. These images are photographs of Morgaine underway and secured at the dock.

One boat in, two to go! I can't wait for Spring!

Study of Glass Decanter

I painted another glass bottle as an exercise. In other news, at work today, a steel bimini frame hit me in the forehead. My head's still ringing.

7 1/2" by 11" Watercolor.

Study of Glass Bottle

I had trouble painting the glass bottles in some still lifes that I painted this winter, so for a challenge, I tried painting just a glass bottle. I tried to keep the painting light and make the bottle look reflective and transparent.

7 1/2" by 11" Watercolor

Kent Narrows

First en plein air painting of 2011! Also the first from my new 7" by 10" Arches watercolor block. I painted this last thursday when the temperature was near 60 degrees. I wish that weather had lasted, I'm not a fan of the snow we had last night.

I painted this (ashore, the boats aren't in the water yet) on the northeast side of Kent Island looking out of the Narrows. The long low land in the background in the umbrella-shaped shoreline of the Chester River.

Stems

This painting continues the series of close-cropped still lifes that I have been working on this winter. I developed the details of the tomato stems more in this painting than I have done before.

I got a lot of work done on my 10' sailing dinghy this weekend. I hope to launch her within a week. Then I'll be able to focus on the Triton in March. I hope to keep posting artwork to the blog, but it may get less frequent as I work on the boats.

10" by 14" Watercolor

Hopkin's Creek Marsh Revisited February 2011

This is a painting that I did in January. I have since reworked it, so this is what it looks like now. The paint is really thick now with lots of thin layers of paint mixed with lots of medium, especially the sky. I posted the original here:

http://kaswhite.blogspot.com/2011/01/hopkins-creek-marsh-1-15-11.html

20" by 20" Oil on Canvas

Glass

Fourth in series. I worked larger this time.

10" by 14" Watercolor

The Firebird Suite

The title seemed appropriate for a red abstract painting!

Forgot to mention yesterday that it was my 100th post! Yay!

20" by 20" Oil Painting

Heart Shaped Box

No, it has nothing to do with a song by Nirvana that was overplayed in the 90s, this actually IS a drawing of a heart shaped puzzle box. Happy Valentine's Day!

Carmina Burana

is as good a title as any as that's what I was listening to when I started this painting.

Yellow Abstract Oil Painting

20" by 20"

Blue and Orange

Third in the series- see yesterday's post.

7 1/2" by 11" Watercolor.

Glass Bottle and Decanter

I'm working on a series of still lifes based on these two glass bottles. The first piece was a graphite drawing that I posted in January, here is the link to it--

http://kaswhite.blogspot.com/2011/01/glass-bottles.html

This is a 7 1/2" by 11" watercolor.

Cropped

Another close up. 7 1/2" by 11" Watercolor.

Close-Up

I'm starting to think that this might be the most interesting way to approach these still lifes- so close up that the image is cropped.

7 1/2" by 11"

Apples and Shadows

I was going to post this last Thursday, but the painting ripped when I pulled up the tape that held the paper down to the board. I was going to throw it out, but today I thought to cut off the ripped section. I think it works better this way, anyways.

7" by 7 1/2" Watercolor.

Abstract Fruit

The abstract painting is based on the sketch that I posted yesterday. 5 1/2" by 7 1/2" Watercolor.

Lots of Fruit

Watercolor sketch. 7 1/2" by 5 1/2"