Small Watercolors

There is this awesome painter Nathan Fowkes that does all these amazing little watercolors from life. So I tried to do the same technique he talks about on his blog. Except in the snow and not as awesome results.

Each are around 3x5
and 20-40mins each

Trees

The best landscape painting I did on my weekly outdoor painting trip with Court Jones at the San Diego Mission
11x14
oil on canvas
(Court helped a little.)

I'm not good at painting the trees. So I got me a book and started practicing.3x4 oil on massonite

Study of an Elizabeth Tolley Painting
8x12 oil on massonite


Last year I did a little painting in Balboa park of a tree in watercolor. I didn't now how to mix colors back then. After doing a few studies in oil and practicing more with watercolor I painted over it. Adding more cools in the darks and bumping up the warms in the light. Before I started it had a 3 values.

5x8 on Watercolor paper