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Self Portrait in Watercolor

Lorraine Watry November 9, 2018

How I painted a watercolor self-portrait in a reflective metal baritone.

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A beautiful day to be out painting in nature! Cochetopa Canyon near Gunnison. I used the Winsor Newton hot press paper and a Graphix graphite pen to do some minimal drawing before starting the watercolor. It took about an hour and a half. #watercolo

So excited and honored to find out my painting, Splish Splash, won second place in the 1st Women in Watercolor International Juried Competition!!! Congratulations to all the award winners and thank you to all the judges! There were 1200 entries from

Super excited to get notice that my painting, "Bottles and Bubblewrap" was selected for Rocky Mountain National Watermedia!
It will be on display at the Evergreen Art Center from September 11th – October 24th, 2020. Thank you to juro

Finished! "Together They Stand" watercolor (18"x28") on cold press Arches 140lb paper. .
This Aspen grove is a painting that I started a few years ago. I put it away for a while to work on other projects. I brought it out recentl

W.I.P. watercolor (18"x28") - I'm getting there! The Aspen trees on the left will still need some shadows. Then the challenge will be to add or take away color so that there is depth in the painting and the foreground trees have some separa

Very pleased to find out two of my watercolors, Rush Hour and Rainbow Rufous, were juried into "Splash of Colorado". The show will hang at the Gunnison Art Museum from July 3rd to the 31st.
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W.I.P. - since the last post, I have darkened some of the shadows on a few of the tree trunks and then I added the 'eyes' and marks to most of the trees in the middle. Now on to the final third of the painting!
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This Aspen grove is a painting that

W.I.P. - well, I've gotten a little farther. I haven't had a lot of time to paint, though. I needed to paint some of the dark eyes and marks on the trees to make sure my other values were working.
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This Aspen grove is a painting that I started a fe

I was thrilled to learn that my TV Art Documentary, produced by Put Some Colour in Your Life (Australian Art TV show) will be heading to the moon with SpaceX and NASA in 2023 in an art time capsule!
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