Merry Christmas 2012!!

"Merry Christmas 2012!", 4 x 5.5" gouache

Having fun with gouache, and decided to use this 'new to me' medium to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas! Thank you all for your support, it means more to me than you will ever know.
Blessings, my friends : )

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A Must Read Post!

Hello friends. We weren't able to leave for Utah today as my dear hubby is still quite ill with a cold, so I was able to spent a few hours online and do some research into gouache, as I want to do some studies in that medium while we are away -less messy, quicker and easier to store. A fellow member of the International Plein Air Painters (IPAP) by the name of Larry Seiler is a wonderful artist and instructor, so I went to his blog to get some tips and inspiration for the medium. While searching there, I read his most amazing post that really struck home and was an amazing testimony for the Christian artists' life. If you are an artist, I hope you will read it. He has lots of very good things to say about the cult of celebrity.

Enjoy!
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"A Splash of Fall", watercolor and gouache painting by Sharon Lynn Williams

"A Splash of Fall", watercolor and gouache, 8x8"
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This is a demonstration painting that I did for my Monday Mixed Media class. I began with a colourful watercolor underwash, and when it was dry, I added blue watercolour mixed with a juicy load of titanium white gouache to negatively paint the sky area -making the trees by not painting them. I added some translucent and opaque strokes to set up the bank area and a bit of opaque dry brush to create the sparkle on the water, and lifted the gouache to reveal the underpainting for the sun.

Enjoy!