30 Paintings In 30 Days, by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

Leada Wood contemporary Texas Artist, watercolor, mixed media and collage

Studio Still Life ©2015 Leada Wood

 

Day 2 of the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. This still life is of a handcrafted pitcher I made years ago and from a bird I bought in Denmark at an artists studio. The artist was famous for his brown birds and I brought a small flock home with me.  I still enjoy my birds and think of all the amazing places our dear friends took us! No still life would be complete without the world famous pear.

A Different Pear by Leada Wood© Artist Of Texas

A Different Pear by Leada Wood©
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Autumn is all about the harvest...a time to slow down...to reflect...a time of changes. I love Autumn! The cool crisp air in the mornings, the leaves turning vibrant oranges, yellows, and reds. Pumpkins and gourds appear at the local market, and if you are very fortunate you live close to where they have apple orchards and pumpkin patches and can go there and enjoy the fruits of the harvest. My mom always had pears in the autumn and we were blessed to get her pear preserves that she made.  I still love pears, I especially like to paint them!
This is for Inspiration Avenues weekly challenge, Autumn.

Tiger Lilly



"Tiger Lilly" by Leada Wood (C) 2011 All Rights Reserved

This is a  9X12 mixed media watercolor on Strathmore paper I painted today.  I randomly put texture medium on the paper, let it dry and then drew my still life. I used wax crayon as a resist in places and drew with inktense pencils in others. I placed masking tape in a directional angle, disregarding the composition and continued painting. I used colbalt teal and turquoise in the directional angle to carry the blue throughout the painting. I added a mirror on the top left painted in the same hue as the bowl and the tiger lilly for balance. I stamped into the black on the top right to create more texture. In areas while the paint was wet I scrapped watercolor pencils over sandpaper for sprinkles of color. For a little added pizzaz I added fushia at the top. I used water soulable oil pastels, watercolor pencils,and inktense to add details here and there. It is difficult to see the various textures as I have to post on such a low resoulution. To see it high resolution visit my website: http://www.leada-wood.artistwebsites.com/  I had fun playing with the different techniques and will try out some more new things with watercolor. Keep checking back...I will keep you posted!