Project Six from Step-By-Step Guide to Painting Realistic Water Colors by Dawn McLeod Heim is Vegetables on a Cutwork Cloth. I liked the looks of this project just looking through this book and couldn’t wait to paint it. (In fact, I jumped ahead and did it out of order.) The focus of the lesson is to paint the different textured surfaces of the vegetables. I pushed my comfort zone by working really large. This is a full sheet of 300# watercolor paper.
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Project 5 from Step-By-Step Guide to Painting Realistic Water Colors by Dawn McLeod Heim is Snuggling Ducklings. This project is a lesson focusing on how to imitate the soft look of feathers and the texture of wood shavings. ‘Nuff said.
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Project 4 from Step-By-Step Guide to Painting Realistic Water Colors by Dawn McLeod Heim was all about reflections. I should have made this a little larger to be kinder to my eyes. I had to resort to very small brushes and I felt myself getting more and more tense.
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Project 3 from Step-By-Step Guide to Painting Realistic Water Colors by Dawn McLeod Heim is “Cluster of Berries”. This lesson focuses on how to make the berries look ripe and three dimensional. I might re-visit this one later for more practice.
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I’m on Project 2 of the 10 projects in the Step-By-Step Guide to Painting Realistic Water Colors by Dawn McLeod Heim. The lesson is “Truffle and Notecard” and it’s all about creating illusions.
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Lately, I've worked on a couple of watercolor paintings that didn't turn out the way I had hoped. They were okay, but lacked that extra special something I had envisioned for them. One was a complete experiment outside my comfort zone, but still, I hoped. I decided that I might take some pressure off myself by revisiting a painting exercise book.
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