Edisto Sunrise

Edisto Sunrise

watercolor

11 x 14 inches

©Ann Thompson Nemcosky

Has it really been two weeks since I last posted? Good grief. We're covered up in snow here so of course I seek refuge by painting the ocean. There was a point in the painting of this where I was sure it was destined for the bin. Yet I continued painting anyway, only with a little more abandon than usual. Then I let it sit quietly for a few days. I am now happy with the result, especially that distant water..More lessons in allowing watercolor paint to behave like watercolor paint.

Ocean Tide Study VI

Ocean Tide Study VI

watercolor

6 x 6 inches

©Ann Thompson Nemcosky

available

Here is another small tide study. I do enjoy painting the water and waves. I like the nearly abstract quality of working with a close-cropped view. And I am learning to trust the paint more, allowing it to move and settle to create the motion and depth required for these simple scenes.

sketchbook :: sunny yellow

This past Monday the weather was cold. It was extremely windy, sounding like freight trains roaring by outside. And it was snowing. Sideways. However inside there is a pot of sunny yellow tulips on my table.

Maybe it's because of winter, or rather in reaction to it, but I seem to be using yellow quite often in my sketches.

Here there were clouds coming over the hill across the way, lit up with yellow light from the day's fading sunlight. I chose not to include the winter trees in the foreground of this scene and just focus on the hill and sky.These were all sketched with watercolor only in my Strathmore Mixed Media sketchbook.