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| "MId Summer's Dream" by Leada Wood©2018 |
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| "The Flutist" ©2016 Leada Wood |
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| "The Fiddler" © 2013 Leada Wood |
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"Little Angel" by Leada Wood©2016 Tis the season for good cheer, kindness, peace and joy! Wishing you and yours a warm Christmas season filled with love. "Paper plain and simple...white as the snow. A little paint and water and an angel does appear." Leada Wood Inspired by one of the real, live angels that lives among us. |
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| "Lilli" by Leada Wood ©2016 I recently attended a watercolor figure workshop with Peggi Habets. She is an amazing instructor and artist. Peggi says to achieve a likeness in a painting, the values have to be accurate and that is the tricky part. The values are perceived in relationship to the other values surrounding it. Very difficult to take a piece of white paper and sculpt it into a 3D representation of a person. We did thumbnails sketches, value studies and color studies before we ever started our subject. It was interesting and a little addictive. The top painting was my first attempt, next is my value sketch, and color study. I still haven't captured my subject to my satisifaction but I can see growth along the way. After I got home I wanted to try something new. The bottom value sketch was done with watercolor graphite and was really a learning curve to sketch with a brush. One of the things I learned along the way is that I need to use watercolor paper instead of drawing paper. I think I will try the water soluble graphite on hot pressed paper next time. |
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| Waiting Game by Leada Wood© This is a 15x22 transparent watercolor on archival paper and is available. Doesn't it seem like we spend a lot of time waiting? Waiting in line... waiting our turn... waiting on people... waiting for our ship to come in...waiting. Funny, wait is a verb yet it means to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens. To be available or in readiness to postpone or delay something, to look forward to eagerly, a period of waiting, pause, interval or delay. Language is a strange thing. I hope whatever you are waiting for is worth the wait! |
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| The Fortune by Leada Wood© This is a mixed media watercolor, 14x22, on Arches paper. I put crackle medium in the background to give an old cracked plaster appearance. I stenciled the leaves with gel medium in a cruciform design to add more interest in the background. The woman is painted in pure transparent watercolors, as well as the background. I don't believe in fortune tellers, just wanted to paint one! I tried to create a sense of mystery and drama. It was quite a challenge to make the crystal ball appear to glow as well as painting all the beads on the dancers costume. This painting will be on exhibit at the Louise Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock Texas during the month of October. |
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| Feed The Birds by Leada Wood © This was fun mixing media with my watercolor, I will definitely continue playing around with this. Funny how a ghost bird appeared behind the one in her lap...hmmm...also looks like there is part of another one. That is what makes experimenting so interesting...you never know what is going to turn up OR if it will work out! I did enjoy the way this background turned out...kind of moody and mysterious. Oh as I was taking the painting off the gator board I ripped it! AHHHHH! Used a different paper, not my usual Arches. Will use the rest of that paper for my students or collage, live and learn... |
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| Feed The Birds by Leada Wood © Well I can say one thing...this background has mystery! I have charged color wet into wet into her flesh and added a blue apron. Progess is being made! |
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| Feed The Birds by Leada Wood © Here we go again! This time I added a layer of Ultramarine blue and flow release. Before I did that I used a pencil and drew into the other layers and wrote some things to give it a little mystery. Oh yeah there was some alcohol dribbled here and there and I used my brush handle while the other layers were wet and did some drawing. See I am just having fun with this! No worries. I always have a problem with backgrounds so that is why I decided to find another way of doing them. You never know until you try. Stay tuned to see if I can pull it off or if I recycle. |
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| Feed The Birds by Leada Wood © Hmm, things have changed! I painted with gesso around the focal point and when dry I painted with quin gold and added flow release to it. When that dried I added quin red and more flow release and turned it sideways so that is would flow. Well anyway it is getting more interesting.....what do you think? |
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| Feed The Birds by Leada Wood © I started laying in watercolor but am not happy with the way things are going. Think I will have fun with this one, even if I ruin it I still have my drawing if things go bad, I can start over and use this paper for a collage painting. |
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| Calypso by Leada Wood © This is a painting I did from a photo I took when I was in Columbia. These cute ladies were dressed in their native clothes with bowls of fruit on their heads. Of course it cost me to take her photo, but a girl has to make a living somehow. I am submitting this to Inspiration Avenues weekly challenge, Sun Kissed. To view all the wonderful art click here: http://www.inspiration-avenue-team.blogspot.com/ |
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| Feed The Birds by Leada Wood © When I was in New Orleans at Jackson Square I saw this lady having lunch and sharing it with her pigeon friends. This little bird just hopped up on her lap to help himself to more. Luckily I had my camera with me, as always, so I captured the momemt. This is the drawing I did from the photo. I only drew the lady and the bird as they were what sparked my imagination. So this is the beginning of another painting....stay tuned! |
