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Flores II This matted
and framed watercolor still life is part of the personal collection of
Stacey Severn of Connecticut. The mauve and golden flowers were
entirely a fiction of my mind and came
together one winter afternoon while I had my watercolors at hand. The
piece
was completed in the spring when I decided to organize all of the
wet-on-wet
colors and shapes with black india ink. Therefore, technically, I
suppose,
one could call it a mixed media painting. Arches 140 lb. cold press
watercolor
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| Flores This
delicate watercolor still life was painted using blues and
yellows. It was made using a wet-on-wet application on watercolor
paper. Finely drawn lines in black ultra-fineline marker were then
added in
order to define the flowers and the stems and leaves. It is a
favorite technique of mine and I employ it often when I choose to paint
in watercolor. This is another one of those paintings that blurs
the line between watercolors and mixed media. |
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By the Sea This
torn paper, watercolor landscape is a layered piece. Each layer
was carefully and purposefully torn
to simulate the white caps of the waves as they break. Since I
was
a child, I have had a romance with the ocean and the salt water. My
uncles
taught me to ride the waves and swim in the ocean and this piece evokes
that
feeling. There is no question that when viewing this, one could
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| Journey to Shangri-La
I remember seeing an old 1937 movie on TV called "Lost Horizon"
starring Ronald Colman and Sam Jaffe. It was about man's image of
utopia with its pure air, bright sun, and untroubled centuries of
blissful life. Shangri-La was an unknown land where nothing was
known of greed, war, hatred, or crime. This torn paper watercolor
landscape depicts that place in the Himalayas, with snow-capped
mountains in the distance where Shangri-La might truly exist. |
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A Snowy Day The pine
tree stands inside the fence in this watercolor on Arches 140 lb.cold
press paper. The painting
represents the classical wet-on-wet watercolor
technique. In New England, where I reside, scenes like this are
very common during the winter months. We have pine trees much
like this one on the side of our driveway. I had thought they
were a kind of medium tree, but they have grown to be huge and
offer up beautiful pinecones at a certain time of year. |
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| Frenetic Flowers This
mixed media watercolor painting is an abstract representation of
plant life that one might find in a tropical setting either on land or
just beneath the surface of a reef under the sea. I often employ
the technique of wet-on-wet watercolor combined with the use of felt
tip marker and ink in my work. The original painting is part of the
collection of Mirjam and Johan Claus of the Netherlands. |
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Fallen Bouquet This
mixed media watercolor painting is
another example of the technique described above. The
subject of the painitng is an abstract
representation of a prom night bouquet that fell
from the arms of a well-intentioned gentleman as he was
on the way to escort his favorite girl to the much anticipated
event.
It is the moment frozen-in- time before
he
can gather them up to make his presentation. |
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