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seaside memories - 3, Salt Medows

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Seaside Memories 3 -

Salt Meadows


SIZE:
 5,5  in. x 5,5 in. - 20 x 20 cm

PAPER: YASUTOMO STONEPAPER 150 g/m²
COLORS: ROCKWELL CANADA


2025 © ISABELLA KRAMER



Trying out new colors is always a special pleasure. In this case, it was indescribably beautiful, as the colors are surprising in their granulation and color scheme.





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Colorful Rhino

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Colorful Rhino 

SIZE:  12 in. x 16 in. - 31 x 41 cm 
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS
PAPER: ARCHES GRAIN FIN - COLD PRESSES 300 g/m²
2023© ISABELLA KRAMER

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Done after a gorgeous, informative and very inspiring Tutorial at Tom Sheperd's Online Art School. 
  I've enjoyed the painting process a lot. But my result is a bit too dark and a bit too muddy. I'll try it again to get in the mood for more light and clearer colors. Looking a Tom's magical brushwork the whole session looks so easy, but OMG, it's not!!



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Holiday Fun with a Mini Workshop - 2

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Mini Watercolor Workshop with my nephew Leon. He wished to learn painting with watercolors and so he'd his first contact with this gorgeous medium.  Painting with kids is always wonderful and he was very happy and relaxed.





Isn't this a gorgeous result for his first attempt?!! 



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Spanish Memories

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Spanish Memories

SIZE: 15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 28 cm (quarter sheet)
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD RKP FatPad ROUGH 425 g/m²

2023 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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 Inspired by our wonderful Fuerteventura holidays, and my newest patreon teacher Blanca Álvarez Sanchez



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Up yours!

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Up Yours! 


SIZE:
 
15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 28 cm (quarter sheet)
PAPER:  SAUNDERS WATERFORD ROUGH 300 g/m²
COLORS: only one color SCHMINCKE SUPER GRANULATION WATERCOLORS Tundra Violet

2023 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Winter is Nature's way of saying, 
'Up Yours'.

- Robert Byrne


Done after a very inspiring watercolor tutorial on Artefacte School by Tatiana Anisimova


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Welcome Autumn!

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Welcome Autumn! 

SIZE: 15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 28 cm (quarter sheet)
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD RKP FatPad ROUGH 425 g/m²

2022 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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 It’s time for some autumnal warm-up exercises. Every year again the Red Current in my garden impressed me with its bright yellow leaves.



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The Lightness of Being - one & two

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The Lightness of Being -
one & two

SIZE: 15,7 in. x 15,7 in. - 40 x 40 cm
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²
COLORS: SENNELIER AND DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS

2022 © ISABELLA KRAMER











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Preparing a Toddler Workshop inspired by Jessica Durant gorgeous butterflies paintings. My sweet neighbor girls are so excited about these ideas and so I’m looking for the perfect way that we all have a lot of fun with pigments and water. I painted the butterflies with clear water and then put some drops of pigment into each one. I’m sure my little painter friends will enjoy this way of doing.




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The jump

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  The Jump

SIZE: 15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 28 cm (quarter sheet)
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD RKP FatPad ROUGH 425 g/m²

2022 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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 Doing some sketches inspired by @jeanhaines #onlineartschool. The goal is to paint people in motion. Since I‘m planning a large „summer at the sea“ piece, I try to paint cliff or water jumps. 

 

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from above - Summer in the City 2

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From above - Summer in the City - 2


SIZE: 11,8 in. x 7,8 in. - 30x 20 cm
PAPER: HAHNEMUEHLE WATERCOLOR BOOK  MATT 250g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors


2022 © ISABELLA KRAMER


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 Sketching some ideas for my planned full imperial. 




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ask the children

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ASK THE CHILDREN

SIZE: 14 cm x 15cm - 5,5" x 5,5"
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD FAT PAD 425g/m² (200lb) ROUGH
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors,
2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER


One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. 

- Johann Wolfgang vo Goethe



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I found no time for serious painting but missing my brushes I had to do some miniatures and I must say it feels gorgeous to play with water and pigments again. 



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Tiny Strawberries Bowl

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Tiny Strawberries Bowl

SIZE:  16 in. x 12 in. - 41 x 31 cm 
PAPER: DALER ROWNEY - THE LANGTON 425 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors 

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER


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That's some school work at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolourinspiration.com that I love! Painting still lifes with one of my favorite fruits - strawberries! And thanks heaven I have had some at my kitchen and a much greater wonder is that they have tasted heavenly and this in February, isn't it awesome!?  f



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Winter City

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Winter City 

SIZE: 19,6 in. x 25,5 in. - 50 x 65 cm
PAPER: HAHNEMUEHLE ANDALUCIA DOUBLE FACED 500 g/m² - matt side 
COLORS: SENNELIER Watercolors + DANIEL SMITH Watercolors 
2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER






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Venetian Mask - II

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 Venetian Mask - II

SIZE: 15 in. x 15 in. - 38 x 38 cm
2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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One more Venetian Mask for our actual theme at Jean Haines's Online Artschool. www.watercolourinspiration.comOh yes, painting Carnival Masks is very, really very addictive! Being amongst this incredible festival was a lifelong dream and now I feel like I am there with all these beautiful costumes, colors, glitter, and gold around me.

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Il Ballo Del Doge

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 il Ballo del Doge

SIZE: 15 in. x 15 in. - 38 x 38 cm
2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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It's February and so it's Carnival time. I love our actual theme Jean Haines's Online Artschool  www.watercolourinspiration.com where we are painting Carnival masks. The Venetian masks are my favorites and painting them creates a wonderfully festive feeling at my studio, all these gorgeous colors and golden glitter around me. 


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The Christmas Bauble

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The Christmas Bauble - #SimpleThings 

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD ROUGH 300 g/m²
COLORS: 
SCHMINCKE GRANULATION WATERCOLORS
SIZE: 9,4 in. x 12,6 in. - 24 x 32 cm
2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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What else could be a "Simple Thing" exercise during Advent at Jean Hains Online Art School as a Christmas bauble?


It's all a question of connection!

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 IT'S ALL A QUESTION OF CONNECTION 
SIZE:  15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 56 cm (half sheet)
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD ROUGH 425 g/m² - 200 lb
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors 
2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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  This is one of my October classwork at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolourinspiration.com The goal is to learn how to connect your subjects in watercolor and it was is such an enjoyable exercise. Not so easy as it seems, but with a lot of fun included.  

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Blissful Autumn

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BLISSFUL AUTUMN

SIZE:  11 in. x 15 in. - 28 x 38 cm (quarter sheet)
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD 300 g/m²
2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER


Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky


This is my first attempt to the "Going for Gold: Autumn Berries" Theme at the Online Art School of Jean Haines www.watercolourinspiration.com. It's a little bit messy, and I'm not sure if I like it. But there was so much happiness in me while creating that I decided to share my blissful autumn wash with you.


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Night falling on the City...

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NIGHT FALLING ON THE CITY... 

SIZE:  11 in. x 15 in. - 28 x 38 cm (quarter sheet)
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD 300 g/m²
2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER


Night falling on the city 
Quite something to behold 
Don’t it just look so pretty 
This disappearing world 

— David Gray


This is a cloud exercise inspired by a Thoms W. Schaller's demonstration, shown by him in the Watercolor Workshop last year in October at Chicago. The thing with clouds is very easy: practice - practice - practice!!! 


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A small bowl of happiness

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A SMALL BOWL OF HAPPINESS

SIZE: 16 in. x 12 in. - 40,6 x 30,5 cm 
PAPER: DAWLER ROWNEY THE LANGTON cold-pressed 425 g/m²
2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER
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June is not only the month of roses, but it's also the month of tasty strawberry too. For years I try to paint strawberries and every year I'm not really satisfied and this year it's just the same. The goal was to make it lose and fresh, but I failed again. So I must pick more strawberries and try it again,  and again and again ... 


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