Snowdrop

My latest Watercolor lesson is the Snowdrop flower.  I learn more with every tutorial and appreciate the pointers I get from posting my work on Anna's school website. It was fun to do a flower this time and learn to paint white petals on a white background.  I also keep learning that I need to stop the video to let my paint dry and to take my time so I will quit transferring paint from the side of my hand to the white background.  Ack!

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Pea Pod

I just finished my 4th class with Anna Mason.  This time I painted a pea pod.  I am having to learn to slow down and look at all the details and subtle color changes.  I am enjoying my classes very much.  

 

Pumpkin

This seems like the wrong time of year to be painting a pumpkin, but really, who knows what day or month is is any more?  I am so glad to have these classes to keep me occupied during these days of  "sheltering in place", quarantine.  This week's tutorial was the mighty pumpkin.....

 I like all the texture I was able to get.  I hope you will enjoy seeing my homework for awhile. I am enjoying these classes so much!

Mushrooms

In the Anna Mason School, we can pick and choose the tutorials we would like to do or, there is a prescribed order to learn in, from beginner to advanced.  I decided that to get the most out of the school, I would go in the recommended order.  The second tutorial was the mushrooms, below:

There were many colorful tutorials I would rather have completed, but I learned about texture and blending and spotting subtle color changes, things I might have missed if I had not taken this tutorial. 

I'm So Excited!

While we are stuck in place, I decided I wanted to learn more about painting with watercolor.  I found an online teacher that I really like (Her lovely British accent and soft spoken manner don't hurt!)  Her name is Anna Mason, and her school is at:  https://www.annamasonart.com/.

I am excited and I want to show off my first project!  I don't have all the exact colors she uses, so while she is mixing paints at a leisurely pace on her palette, I am madly mixing a little of this and a little of that on mine trying to come up with a hue to match hers as closely as possible.  I was going to go ahead and buy all the paints she uses, but I actually think I will learn more about mixing paint this way.  So, without further ado, this is my William's Pear from the Anna Mason School tutorial......