Window Flowers watercolor painting is 7 x 10 inches on Arches 140 pound paper. This is also from a Wet Canvas WDE (weekend drawing event). A great break for me from my children's book illustrations. Almost done with book number one.

With all this rain we are having here, my thoughts for today are on water, but the kind that quenches our thirst rather than the kind that ruins our weekends.... there is also a 'water' for our souls. "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and dink." John 7:37

Monkey Watercolor Painting is 7 x 10 inches and done on Arches 140 pound paper. This is from a photo reference from a zoo in Thailand from a WDE (weekend drawing event) on Wet Canvas.

Oranges watercolor painting measures 7 x 10 inches on Arches 140 pound paper. This is from a Wet Canvas challenge WDE (weekend drawing event) which I squeaked in last night.


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Beavertail Park, Jamestown, Watercolor Painting is about 12 X 16 inches done on Arches 140 pound paper. This is plein air painting done yesterday, which turned out to be a gorgeous day here in Rhode Island. I took lots of photos to work on paintings in my studio, but it's great to be outside to see the colors. I loved the contrast of those rocks and waves crashing against them and the delicate rose flowers that grow wild along the coast.

Just a reminder again that even though I am not posting here as regularly, I am painting every day! I have nearly completed the illustrations for the first book and ready to take them for scanning. A contract for a second book is "in the mail"....

And I would feel remiss if I didn't give you a word for today....this is from "The courage to Change" and is a quote by Francis de Sales:


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Prison Door watercolor painting is 12.5 x 10.5 inches on Arches 140 pound paper. This is from a Wet Canvas Watercolor Studio June challenge, reference photo which I enjoyed doing. I will attach the 'plaque' to the back of the painting, photo below.



Doors are interesting. I'm thinking of the possibility of doing a series of doors from different places.... They represent so many things...


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Indian - Sarcee Tribe - Jack Plume -watercolor painitng is 7.75 x 7.75 inches on Sennelier 140 pound paper. This is from a Wet Canvas reference photo. There were 3 challenges---to do a black and white in color or vice versa, to do some local history searching and 3rd to show everyone. This photo was in black and white (for challenge #1).

I first noticed a house on the corner not for from me that had a plaque that said 1757...surrounded by a white picket fence, .and I am amazed at how well the house is kept up. There’s an old carriage house, including carriage, a well in front. One of these days I will take my camera and get some pictures - I think it would be a great painting. Anyway, the challenge has spurred me to do some research on our little Oaklawn village.



This is the Oaklawn Baptist Church, one of 2 central buildings of 35 that comprise the village of Oaklawn in Cranston, purchased from the indians for settlement. The second is our library, which was a school house. Here is the full information at this link, if you're interested: http://www.cranstonri.com/generalpage.php?page=110

and this excerpt:

“Archaeologists have determined that, from about 1500 to 1800 B.C., the area near Furnace Hill Brook was inhabited by Native Americans who fashioned bowls, pipes and other tools from soapstone mined from a nearby quarry. Pottery-making and the growing of maize, beans and squash were major changes introduced in the area from about 500 B.C. to the colonial period. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the Narragansett Indians had at least six villages in Cranston, although none has been found within the Oaklawn district.”

From there I did some research on the indians: the Narragansett Tribe, from various sources, and found out many of them were killed during King Phillip’s war even though they were neutral from the other warring tribes, and many of the homes in the Oaklawn settlement were burnt down during that same war.

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Garden Pond Watercolor painting, 12 x 16 inches on Arches 140 pound paper. This is from a plein air painting day at the Botanical Gardens in Roger Williams Park. I have been struggling with this painting for a few weeks (when I'm not working on images for the children's book I am illustrating). I think it may be done.


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Red Rose Watercolor painting, 5 x 7 inches. I can't seem to get away from doing these flowers..... I would love to do this in a larger than life version.



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Three Yellow Roses watercolor painting is 7 x 10 inches, on Arches 140 pound paper. The yellow rose represents friendship, and so it's fitting that there are three, and they are in intimate relationship with each other.

Reading this morning from a chapter called Silent Nights and Solitary Days in Max Lucado's "Traveling Light" book, he talks about how loneliness is not the absence of faces, but the absence of intimacy. This may be how God gets our attention. Max uses an example of going on a long ride with a friend's car with only a CD player and your friends classical music selection, which you don't like, to listen to. By the end of your trip, you may be "this isn't so bad". In the pain of our loneliness we may turn to God who so wants us to hear his music.



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White Crocus watercolor painting is 5 x 7 inches on Fabriano Artistico paper.

Red rose watercolor painting is 5 x 7 inches on Fabriano Artistico 140 pound paper


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Pink Hibiscus watercolor painting, 5 x 7 inches on Fabriano 140 pound paper. This image is from the Flutterby butterfly exhibit at the zoo last fall.


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Leaves and Rocks watercolor painting is 16 x 12 inches on Arches 140 pound paper. This was therapeutic doing this painting for me....

Water Lily watercolor painting is 5 x 7 inches. I have been busy working on paintings for a children's book, so my postings here have not been every day, although I am painting every day. I spent this morning plein air painting with a group from the watercolor society I belong to at the Botanical Center at Roger Williams Park in Providence. What a gorgeous day!


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Yellow rose watercolor painting is 7.5 x 7.5 inches done on Sennelier 140 pound paper. Yellow is hard to shadow. I almost posted this last night, but I thought to wait until this a.m. and see if I wanted to make improvements since I wasn't 100% happy with it and I'm glad I did, because I am happy with this.

Some thoughts on patience....

Daffodil watercolor painting is 7 x 7 inches and is from a Wet Canvas weekend drawing event.


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Pink water lilly watercolor painting is 5 x 7 inches on Fabriano Artistico 140 pound paper.

One of my favorite quotes....


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This is a 5 x 7 inch watercolor done on Fabriano Artistico 140 pound paper. If you have noticed that I'm not posting here as frequently, it's not because I am not painting. I am working on illustrations for a children's book, which I'm very excited and happy about being able to do.


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Rose watercolor painting is 5 x 7 inches on Fabriano paper.


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Robin's Nest watercolor painting is 5 x 7 inches on Fabriano Artistico 140 pound paper.

Bananaquit bird watercolor painting, 5 x 7 inches on Fabriano 140 pound watercolor paper. This is from a Wet Canvas weekend drawing event.

Some thoughts on the importance of a sense of humor, from "Courage to Change", an Al-anon Family Groups book:



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Seal watercolor painting, 5 x 7 inches, and done on Fabriano 140 pound paper.

Some thoughts this morning on contentment from Max Lucado from "Safe in the Shepherd's Arms" - hope and encouragement from Psalm 23.... "What you have in your Shepherd is greater than what you don't have in life." All our "stuff" is not ours....ask any coroner....and our "stuff" is not who we are. So the economy, the stock market, global warming....we can surrender to God and trade that for God's "lightweight, tailor-made, sorrow resistant attache of gratitude".

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Tulips watercolor is another painting done this weekend from a Wet Canvas drawing event and is 5 x 7 inches on Fabriano 140 pound paper. The temperature here is 28 degrees, so it's hard to believe spring is here, but I did see shoots of tulips coming through the frozen ground a few days ago.

One of the books I find inspiration for my life for is called "Courage to Change" and is from Al-anon Family Groups ...

Butterfly watercolor painting, 5 x 7" on Arches 300 pound paper. From a Wet Canvas weekend drawing event.

Thoughts today from Paul, within earshot of the sharpening blade that would sever his head, to Timothy,

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This train watercolor paintings is from a Wet Canvas weekend drawing event reference. I am soooo happy to be able to be painting, having pretty much wrapped up all of the organizational type work for next Sunday's four person show, March 29th at the Watercolor Society in Pawtucket.


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Baby Duck watercolor painting is 7.5 x 7.5 inches.... a new little life.

Some thoughts on this from Gilda Radner:

Water Lilly watercolor painting, 12 X 14 inches, Arches 140 pound paper. Spent the day pretty much labeling paintings, organizing by making lists......b o r i n g. I worry that I will forget something. Some thoughts on worry.....or not worrying....

Sailing into New Harbor is a 7 x 10 inch watercolor done on Arches 140 pound paper. Such a beautiful clear day on Block Island in September, with a limited number of people. We painted here all day near the Coast Guard House at the entrance of New Harbor. I have a four person art show March 29th at the watercolor society, so I have been busy with getting ready for that...not enough time to paint!!!


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Cattle watercolor painting is 12 x 16 inches....who knew purple cows would work so well. I have not been able to do enough painting recently. I have a four person show in three weeks and have been getting organized for it - framing, matting, ordering, measuring, catologing.... I would definitely rather be painting.

Thoughts today on purple cows:



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Underwater watercolor painting is 11 x 14 inches on Arches 140 pound paper, from a WetCanvas.com reference image for a weekend drawing event several weeks ago. I loved the way the water reflects on the objects below and wanted to capture that.


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Robbie watercolor painting from a black and white photo of my father, is 8 x 10 inches and is done on YES canvas. This is my first time using a canvas for watercolors, so it took me a while playing with this and I'm still not happy with it. You can wash off 95% of the paint, which I did twice. The paint lifts really easily when you're adding a wash, or blending colors, so you need a very soft brush and just the right amount of water.....so a learning curve, for sure. The advantage is it can be sprayed with a fixative and then varnished, and this particular canvas is a 3/4" wrapped canvas, so it could be hung without a frame at all, once the sides are painted. So, that's the reason for no posts for a few days here ....I've been doing the same painting over and over!

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Newfound Lake, New Hampshire, a summer day, is 12 x 16 inches on Arches 140 pound paper. Ahhh, summer is coming, even though there is snow today.....

In these hard economic times, a thought on hope, on looking to the future, from Alexander Graham Bell.....


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Ducks-Not In A Row watercolor painting measures 12 x 16 inches on Arches 140 pound paper.

Whether the expression has it's origins in the V formation they form in flight, or duckpin bowling pins, or the line of babies that follow Mama duck....it speaks of being prepared.

Floral Spray watercolor painting is 12 X 14 inches on Arches 140 pound paper. I used a different technique for this painting. I poured the paint on the paper and then tilted it. When it was dry, I lifted out the leaves and flowers.


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Bouquet watercolor painting, 5 x 7". This is from a WetCanvas.com weekend drawing event.

Valentine thoughts:


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