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Butterflies on Mexican Sunflowers Watercolor Paintings
I did two watercolor paintings featuring Mexican Sunflowers. These little sunflowers attract a bunch of different butterflies to my garden. I reworked two photographs into the paintings you see above. The first shows the Sunflower in full bloom. The second painting shows that even a withered flower still attracts butterflies. In fact, the withered flower had more butterflies than the fresh flower. I do not know what that is all about. The first butterfly I think it might be a Tiger Swallow Tail Butterfly. It is a male one to be more specific about it. The three other butterflies are...
Watercolor Cityscape Travel Paintings: Roatan, Key West and Cartagena
Today, I wanted to show you three distinct landscape paintings. They are based on travel photographs. Before the plague, I used to travel about the Caribbean at least once a year. These days it is rare that I go out of the house to a restaurant. I am not going to bog you down with the current state of the world. I just want to show you these nice watercolor paintings. They are not meant to be perfect mimicries of the photographs. Rather, I just used them for inspirations to produce landscape paintings. The first one is a cityscape of...
Hialeah Savannah Apartment Watercolor Painting
Today, I was in the mood to paint a cityscape. After looking through my photos, I settled on this one. The place I chose to paint has a special meaning to me. I lived in the Savannah apartments for almost 15 years. It is the longest I have ever lived in any place. I tend to dream about that place from time to time. It wasn’t the best place to live, but it wasn’t terrible either. It was vanilla. Vanilla is good. We ended up moving because we outgrew the place. We were no longer small brats, and we needed...
The Life of a Yellow Rose Watercolor Painting
Today, I was in the mood to paint a floral painting. In the old days, I used to make these simple paintings with acrylics. This time I did it on watercolor paper. I have been painting with watercolors a lot, as of lately. I feel more confident working with the medium. Normally, I just make cityscapes or landscapes with watercolors. This time I wanted to paint flowers. First, I drew the roses with a pencil. I created the shapes starting in the middle. Trust me, with roses, it is always better to start drawing in the center. I drew the...
Cartagena Colombia Watercolor Painting
This is a cute little watercolor I made inspired on a photography I took while I was in Colombia Cartagena. I didn’t try to replicate everything. I just worked off the composition and then I expanded from there. It is fun to try a bit of landscape from time to time. The painting was given form by a black fineliner pen. It is important to make certain that the pen is not water soluble. It must say archival quality, in order to combine it well with watercolors. The interior belongs to a church. I included the original photo so you...