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January 2021 Challenge at the Facebook Watercolour Group - Watercolour Art on Paper
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Painting a kingfisher was my very first contact with the life-changing work of Jean Haines www.watercolourinspiration.com and it's many years ago. I was deeply impressed by the looseness of her style and the gorgeous modern and vibrant colors she used and I am until today. Learning from her and discover more and more my own way in art is such an amazing experience that it helps to live with the complicated social situation during Covid-19 time.
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I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.
Inspired by Jean Haines Online Art School - www.watercolourinspiration.com
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Truly a Switzerland region for our little sheep in the snow at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolourinspiration.com, and here they have such wonderful cozy barns to stay warm during this cold season. I couldn't resist painting a winter landscape during my next sheep wash is drying.
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Planned as a background wash for a sheep painting today I looked at it and a deer appears.
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Today's tutorial at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolourinspiration.com
painting a little lamb in the snow using and applying all techniques that we've learned during the last months. Disconnection is the magic word of today's lesson.
“Mary Had a Little Lamb” Lyrics by Sarah Josepha Hale
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One more for my Women all over the World series. As you know I'm a winter girl, so I like to show you the depth of my love for this season.
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Inspired by a wonderful New Year's walk this year, amazing beauty and peaceful atmosphere there and as always a lot of wild birds resting.
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Miracles Start to Happen
When you Give as Much
Energy to Your Dreams
as You do to Your Fears
- Buddha
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“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection
- Gautama Buddha
One more Buddha for my new series, paint portraits on loose background washes is absolutely addictive. Inspired by Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolorinspiration.com
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“If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow. Happiness lies ahead. Meditation is key.”
- Gautama Buddha
To paint Buddha portraits on loose background washes is absolutely addictive. Inspired by Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolorinspiration.com
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"There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
– Buddha
Portrait painting starts at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolorinspiration.com with a lovely Buddha's head. I took my own photo of the gorgeous Buddha statue at Worpswede as inspiration.
This special laughing Buddha lives really nearby my home at an Artist Village, located near the city of Bremen at Worpswede. Many famous artists have worked there as Paula Modersohn Becker, Clara Westhoff, Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn, Hans am Ende, Bernhard Hoetger, Fritz Overbeck, Heinrich Vogeler, the famous author Rainer Maria Rilke, and others. Inside the park around the museum this friendly buddha lives. I love to take our visitors there, as you can see
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"Simple Things" monthly flowers exercise at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolorinspiration.com
I've always loved painting snowdrops and to reduce the motive on only the important shapes is a very relaxing and wonderful little funny moment. I must do some more and will add it to this post.
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The first painting in 2021 is a winter fun scene filled with a lot of memories of the lovely winters in my childhood. From morning to evening we're on our sleighs and nothing could stop our fun, no cold, no totally wet clothes, only the early darkness set an end to our happy days.
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