Recent Posts Tagged With 'Color'

• Autumn View

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 08:15 in Color, watercolor, ink, countryside, watercolour, banderas

  This countryside painting shows the colors of fall beginning to appear. The trees around here and up in the mountains are bursting with color and the evenings and mornings are much cooler. The rains are beginning to fall and autumn seems to be disapp...

• Simple Color Sample

  Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 08:55 in drawing, Color, flowers, watercolor, ink, sketch, watercolour, bouquet, banderas

  I wanted to do something very simple so I redid a drawing and came up with this colorful little image. At times, I can get a nice effect by not doing the entire image as I did here on the vase. Colorful and simple, this painting shows how you can do ...

• Desert Fence

  Posted on Saturday July 18th, 2009 at 09:15 in Color, watercolor, desert, ink, rocks, watercolour, cactus, banderas

  Vivid colors show a desert just after a rainstorm. A broken fence litters the shrubs and rocks giving us a reminder there once was some live stock housed in the area. I used bolder ink lines in this painting but I think now--too bold. Ink and waterc...

• A Craving For Color

  Posted on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 09:00 in Color, country, barn, banderas, inks, prismacolor, fine line markers

  I drew this rustic old barn and surrounding scene with Prismacolor Premier Fine Line Markers.This is a departure from my normal ink and watercolor style. I liked using many colors with small-point pens for a change to satisfy my current craving for c...

• Get Out Of Your Rut

  Posted on Saturday May 30th, 2009 at 09:00 in Color, flowers, watercolor, ink, watercolour, banderas, micron, wet-on-wet, color brush pens

  Sometimes, we artists get into a rut. Don't know what to draw or paint so we do nothing. We just need to adapt! A trick I have learned from Cathy (Kate) Johnson www.flickr.com/photos/cathy-johnson/ from one of her fine watercolor instruction books, ...

• Proud And Poised

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 08:10 in Color, California, watercolor, arizona, plants, ink, watercolour, aloe, banderas

  I saw a photograph in a magazine the other day and thought I would draw it. I really like the flowers, the leaves and the curly branches and trunks. This plant is named South African Aloe. It has popped up in some of the drier areas in the USA like ...

• Open Desert

  Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 09:30 in Color, watercolor, desert, shrubs, watercolour, banderas, rock formations

  Loose watercolor painting showing the beautiful colors in the desert and unique rock formations. Spots of green show the new growth of shrubs. The distant hills are in blue. 8" x 10", watercolor....

• Across The Street

  Posted on Saturday March 21st, 2009 at 08:07 in drawing, Color, illustration, watercolor, ink, watercolour, banderas, lizards, line art

  During some idle time, I sat on my porch and sketched the house across the street on a very hot day last September. Simple subject, sketchy lines and a cool glass of wine made this exercise very relaxing. OK, OK!. Maybe I had more than one glass of ...

• Space Flares

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 08:35 in art, Color, watercolor, outer space, watercolour, banderas, wet-in-wet

  This is a Terry Banderas vision of a scene in outer space. The title was given because of the lighter blue images floating around that remind me of colorless flares. The reds and yellows are colors from somewhere--outbursts from something. Entire pa...

• A Visit To Monument Valley

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 08:45 in art, Color, movies, Utah, watercolor, arizona, ink, visual arts, watercolour, banderas, monument valley

  I have finalized this larger painting in preparation for our association's Fine Art Show scheduled for February 2009. Monument Valley is a beautiful area located in SE Utah and NE Arizona, It is not a true valley but an area of pinnacles and buttes ...

• Warm California Hills

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 09:00 in painting, Color, farm, California, watercolor, trees, ink, visual arts, watercolour, banderas, brown hills

  Here is another scene for those who are already tired of winter. Colorful farm buildings with rolling brown hills make for a nice setting in the back country of central California. In the spring months, these rolling hills are beautiful carpets of gr...

• Trees Still Dropping Leaves

  Posted on Tuesday December 9th, 2008 at 08:40 in drawing, Color, illustration, California, watercolor, trees, ink, thanksgiving, Autumn, leaves, watercolour, auburn

  I drew this while sitting on a comfy chair on a pleasant day before Thanksgiving in my mom's front yard. Surprisingly, there are still lots of leaves on these trees some of which are still very green. Seems like the leaves are staying on the trees l...

• Vacant Pots Of Color

  Posted on Saturday November 1st, 2008 at 10:45 in drawing, Color, garden, illustration, watercolor, ink, sketch, visual arts, pots, watercolour, urns

  Empty pots against a patio wall is an exercise in simplicity. Spackles of color are shown on the pots along with a variety of color. These empty pots would have been spectacular if they were filled with flowers and other growth. I thought of filling ...

• The Edge Of Color

  Posted on Monday September 22nd, 2008 at 09:45 in painting, Color, winter, watercolor, ink, forest, deer, visual arts, Autumn, watercolour, meadow

  Two deer graze peacefully in an opening on a meadow next to a densely populated forest. The greenery of trees in the foreground is framed by the color of the leaves in the background trees. In this painting, I played with masking out all of the tree...

• Color and Shapes Experiment

  Posted on Monday July 28th, 2008 at 08:20 in Color, watercolor, trees, ink, grove, watercolour, shapes, note cards

  This image shows another experiment and an exercise in using colors and sharp shapes. I began the painting by merely painting onto 140# watercolor paper with lots of color and very wet. The color shapes looked like they could be a grove of trees so m...

• Village Somewhere

  Posted on Saturday July 5th, 2008 at 08:25 in Color, watercolor, ink, watercolour, shadows, village

  Early morning?- or is it late afternoon?-depiction of colorful buildings, deep shadows, bare trees and blue sky of a village somewhere. Is it in USA or Europe?--I think Europe. Most of the ink work was done with black brush pens and larger Micron po...

• Playing With Shapes And Colors

  Posted on Saturday May 31st, 2008 at 10:00 in Color, watercolor, ink, watercolour, shadows, containers, shapes, bottles, wet-on-wet

  Watercolors were applied onto wet 140# watercolor paper to develop this painting. I lightly sketched in the outlines of bottles. Micron pens 02 and 05 were used as well as a black brush pen to define shapes. Tombow pen was used in dark shadow areas. ...

• Church With Color

  Posted on Wednesday March 5th, 2008 at 21:45 in Color, Church, watercolor, vermont, ink, Autumn, fall, watercolour

  My painting is of a colorful scene with a very white church in the midst of lots of color on a fall day in the northeastern USA. This is one of three images for my wife to build a framed church collection in our home. Unfortunately, this scene does n...

• Country Fall

  Posted on Sunday October 28th, 2007 at 08:18 in Color, country, watercolor, ink, fall, watercolour

  I produced this during one of my last watercolor classes. We are looking down the hill on some structures and some fall trees and color. Turned out OK and everyone in class seemed to like it including the instructor. 11" x 14" ink and watercolor on...

• Southwest Architecture

  Posted on Monday July 23rd, 2007 at 13:30 in Color, watercolor, ink, southwest, watercolour

  This painting shows a large structure from the southwestern part of the USA. This theme matches so many of the buildings in this area with rust colors, adobe facades and rustic additions. A warm, clear day can quickly change into thunderstorms and th...