This thread has been very popular and should continue into the fall. There have to be some folks out there who haven't posted yet.
Forgive me if I have posted this before (can't remember). I needed something to start the thread.
Sailboats near the lighthouse in downtown Buffalo, NY
edit to add: here's where we came from
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/906985/
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The sailboats and this one, a skyline of downtown Buffalo, were done very early in my study of watercolor. The skyline is all freehand, no rulers or anything like that. Forgive the poor photo. It was covered in plastic just back from the framers. My daughter-in-law picked it out from all of my paintings as a Christmas gift. I told her to pick anything she wanted and I would have it framed. It has a prominent place in her living room.
a couple of studies I did in Forest Lawn Cemetary by Mirror Lake in Buffalo. Several notable people are buried there including Grover Cleveland and Red Jacket, the Indian Chief.
another
Still life class
I've sat there! Spent a lot of time touring the cem. Very nice!
Thanks, Willie.
A spot in the Adirondack Mtns on Raquette Lake, NY where I spent a lot of my childhood
My 2 cats, Tigger & Rosie, long gone (sob). I got Rosie (right) when she was 5 weeks old and she sucked on my bathrobe because she was too little to leave her mommy. I had her for 18 years. Tigger was her baby, one of twins in a litter of 4. He lived for 17 years. He was really my sons cat. used to walk around the house with cat draped around his shoulders.
Very nice, Jan!
Yes, very nice Jan - we were just at Raquette Lake over the weekend.
What a wonderful talent you have, Jan. Thank you for sharing with me.
Please say you were thinking of me when you posted the one of Raquette Lake, Jan. lol I LOVE it.
Debi, did you stop there? I am sooooo jealous. sigh
isn't she great? I love your work Jan.
Your painting of Buffalo made me think of a recent episode of Ghost Hunters - which made me think of you. They were checking out the train station that is supposedly haunted.
Deb, were you in the village? out on the lake? our camp was on Cunningham's point between Golden Beach and Silver Beach. My grandfather was a close friend of Art Cunningham's. Art had the camera concession at Enchanted Forest in Old Forge summers for a long time after he retired.
Anita, you're so sweet. Thank you. That train station is where my DH and I did most of our courting. He was in the USAF stationed in Rome, NY and took the train home weekends when he was not on alert. Sometimes if he was getting in at, like, 3AM, my dad would drive down with me earlier and give me a ride back home so I could leave my car for him. Dad didn't like me hanging around the train station at 3AM.
Nice story, Jan. Never been there. Have to remember.
Technically, this piece of art was not done by a member of the NE forum-or by a member of Dave's Garden for that matter. However, it was done by my cousin, and I just wanted to share it with you.
A few years ago, NYC had a "Cows on Parade" exhibit, with fiberglass cows scattered around the city. They were all painted in various designs (one was painted like a NYC checkered cab).There was recently another exhibit using German Shepherd Dogs. Other cities have had similar exhibits. In 2006, Larchmont, NY had ducks. Mystic, CT had whales.
Anyway, in Scarsdale, the Roosters have arrived. They will be on exhibit around Scarsdale through April 2009. After which they will be auctioned off for charity.
They are big - 4' tall.
My cousin, Tony named his "Jane & John Hencock". It's a rooster that lays eggs - 13 of them. One for each of the original colonies.
So, here's Tony with his rooster.
Nancy
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Beautiful, Nancy!
Nancy, a rooster that lays eggs is a new concept. I like it! And that is one very impressive rooster. Congrats to your very talented cousin.
Love his tail!! Very impressive indeed.
I like that! Very original!
Awhile ago Victor posted a picture of an erratic .I thought it would make a good painting so here goes
Image is 11x14
This is the photo
This is the painting- I flipped the image in Photoshop so it would read from laft to right.
Needs a tough up here and there.
I was taken by the iron wash on the rocks near the middle
You got my non-directional brain going there for a moment - I have very little differentiation and sometimes see things do that anyway - what a trip! Lovely painting of a neat photo.
Thanks,
Couldn't help myself. Victors photos are great subject matter.
Very nice, Jo Anne!
What a nice job you did with Victor's photo. I love how you brought out the iron.
Well, I finally found the second thread to this. Last night everytime I clicked on the link to go to this thread I was directed to a blank page for posting a new thread. Didn't make sense to me. Earlier tonight I posted a reply on the first thread. I had posted pics of the painting I had done on the walls of my bedroom. If anyone here hasn't seen them, please check them out on the previous thread here:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/906985/
I decided I would repost my reply to the comments on the first thread, so here it is:
Thanks, you guys. Allison, your texturing came out great. And yes, I do horses. I have done many a ceramic vase with horses cut out at the top and the bottom part sponged like I did with the wolves on my walls. Sold many of them, too, privately and wholesale to shops in Scottsdale, AZ. Have not done any ceramics since moving back to MA (I was raised here in Halifax). I found some photos of 2 vases I had done. I outlined the horses on top that were cut out in gold, and I used a textured glaze, which is flat with shiny specks in it. I've done variations on this theme with different animals and such. I'm going to scan more pics and post later tonight or tomorrow. Wish I could get into doing this again. I had a lot of fun doing this.
Boojum, the terra-cotta marbling on the bottom was done with the textured double rollers using 2 different color paints together at the same time and blending them. Very easy to do, and the effect is very subtle with the colors I chose.
Karen
Here is a large pillow vase I made with horses.
Here is a round vase I did with horses. No room on the bottom to do the silhouettes. I made more of the round ones than the pillow vases.
Jan, your watercolors are very nice. Thanks for sharing.
Nancy, your cousins rooster is impressive. Tres chic!
Great watercolor of Victor's erratic, JoAnn!
Ok, I finally scanned my pics of the vases I did when I was living in Arizona, from about 1999 to 2001. This first one is a large pillow vase. I cut out howling wolves around the top, then painted a design on the bottom using flat textured glaze that had shiny specks in it. I finished the inside with shiny black glaze and outlined the design below and the cut-out wolves in white gold. I had to paint 3 coats of clear glaze on all the lines in the design before putting on the white gold. The piece had to be fired 4 times.
Here is another wolf vase with a different design and different cut-outs. This time on the cut-outs I put in detailing (which you can't see well in this picture) using transparent underglazes and painted over with 3 coats of a clear glaze. I also used underglazes for the black detailing in the birch trees.
Here is another wolf vase similar to the horse pillow vase I did, but with howling wolves cut out on the top and running wolves sponged on the bottom. They are the same running wolves, btw, that I used on my wall.
Karen
Here is the other side of the vase.
No cut-outs on this tall pillow vase, just a design using the textured glazes and putting in some detail with underglazes on the leaves and jaguar's spots. I outlined this all in gold.
Here is a large pillow vase with deer cut-outs. This time I painted a scene on the bottom with transparent underglazes, then went over the entire vase with clear glaze. I outlined the cut-outs with gold.
Here's the other side of that vase.
Here's another large pillow vase with horses.
Here's a round horse vase, this time with rearing horses. The cut-outs are done in the textured glaze, the bottom and inside done with black underglaze and clear glaze over it. The cut-outs are outlined in gold.
Oh, I was wrong, the cut-outs above were outlined in white gold, not gold.
Here is a large dolphin pillow vase. The cut-outs were done in opaque underglazes, as was the design below. The dark dolphin in the design below is done in white gold, and the cut-outs are also outlined in white gold.
