Singer Sargent's Lantern Girls - my version

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Singer Sargent's Lantern Girls

my version

SIZE:  15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 56 cm (half sheet)

PAPER: SAUNDERS WATERFORD COLD PRESSED NOT 425 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors,

2024 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Do you know John Singer Sargent RA’s oil painting “Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose”, 1885 - 1886. Surely you do, it’s one of this Royal Academician’s most famous works. And this will be my version of it. I love the motive and learned a lot while working on it. 

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Old Mr. Toad

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Old Mr. Toad

SIZE: 15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 28 cm 

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD RKP FatPad ROUGH 425 g/m²

2024 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Ich habe unsere Gartenkröte wieder entdeckt und festgestellt, dass ich zwar schon einige Frösche gemalt habe, aber noch nie eine Kröte. An diesem ersten noch herrlich warmen Herbsttag ist es einfach wunderbar noch draußen arbeiten zu können.

Ich habe ohne jede Vorzeichnung mit dem Auge begonnen und dann langsam die Kröte und ihre Umgebung drumherum aufgebaut.

I rediscovered our garden toad and realized that although I have painted a few frogs, I have never painted a toad. On this first, still lovely warm autumn day, it is simply wonderful to work outside.

I started with the eye without any preliminary drawing and then slowly built up the toad and its surroundings around it.

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October's Farewell

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October's Farewell

SIZE: 24 in. x 18 in. - 61 x 46 cm 

PAPER:  ARCHES grain fine 300 g/m²
COLORS:  DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors   

2023 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Dive Deep

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Dive Deep

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

2023 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Sometimes we lost inspiration and motivation for painting, because of life's hick-ups. I'm sure all of us know exactly what I mean. To come back into the right mood to enjoy creating art, I know nothing better than the gorgeous loose style of Jean Haines. She's so generous that she offers some great free online tutorials at her art school and this painting is inspired by the last one. A fantastic lesson to paint Delphiniums. 

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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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Little Things in Life...

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Little Things in Life

SIZE: 28 cm x 38 cm
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD RKB  FatPad ROUGH 425g/m² (200lb)

2022 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Don’t forget the little things in life that make you happy
Don’t forget the little things in life that make you smile
Cast your cares aside and think about the things that make you smile…“

 painting in my outdoor studio is absolutely one of these little things that makes me happy 💚💚

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Enjoy

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Enjoy - Gartentag 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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I use a little break while gardening for some more doodles on my new sketchbook. 

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The last Tulips

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Gartentag

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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.A quick and relaxing doodle with the last tulips of the year. 

Autumn pleasures - three

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Autumn Pleasures - three

SIZE: 15 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

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Not much time for painting, but some small autumn doodles must be done and my third one, like every year during fall is some rosehips painting. 

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Autumn Pleasures - two

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Autumn Pleasures - two

SIZE: 15 cm x 10 cm - 6" x 4"

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD FAT PAD 425g/m² (200lb) ROUGH

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors,

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Not much time for painting, but some small autumn doodles must be done. 

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Autumn Pleasures - one

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Autumn Pleasures - one 

SIZE: 15 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

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Not much time for painting, but some small autumn doodles must be done and so I've started with the Jack-o-Lantern-Flowers, which have taken over my garden at the moment - I love it!! 

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Garden of Villa Melzi, Lake Como - Italy

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Garden of Villa Melzi, Lake Como - Italy 

SIZE:  15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 56 cm (half sheet)

PAPER: SAUNDERS WATERFORD ROUGH 425 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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is my submission for Ali Cavanaugh's Patreon challenge #43 illuminate the ordinary - Art Class of Ali Cavanaugh. Done after an inspiration of my own photography taken at the gorgeous park of Villa Melzi years ago. This is such a magical and beautiful place and I have visited it several times. I can't wait to be there again. 

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Vicolo Venezia

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Vicolo Venezia

SIZE:  12 in. x 12 in. - 31 x 31 cm 

PAPER: ARCHES GRAIN TORCHON ROUGH 425 g/m²

2021© ISABELLA KRAMER

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Inspired by Leena Anderson's atmospheric building photo shared at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolourinspiration.com  

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C is for Columbines

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C is for Columbines

SIZE: 15 in. x 15 in. - 38 x 38 cm
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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C is for Columbines -> flower ABC at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolourinspiration.com  

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C is for Clematis

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C is for Clematis

SIZE: 15 in. x 15 in. - 38 x 38 cm
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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C is for Clematis -> flower ABC at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolourinspiration.com  

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fully opened

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FULLY OPENED

SIZE:  12 in. x 12 in. - 31 x 31 cm 

PAPER: ARCHES GRAIN TORCHON ROUGH 425 g/m²

2021© ISABELLA KRAMER

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C is for crocus at the flower ABC at Jean Haines Online Art School www.watercolourinspiration.com  

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I could hear you

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I could hear you... 

SIZE:   16,5 in. x 22 in. - 42 x 56 cm 

PAPER: HAHNEMUEHLE MOULD MADE MATT 300 g/m² - 140 lbs

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors 

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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.

- Lucy Christopher 

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 Inspired by Jean Haines Online Art School - www.watercolourinspiration.com 

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Herbst Kleinigkeiten - Autumn's Simple Things

 AUTUMN'S SIMPLE THINGS - HERBST KLEINIGKEITEN 

SIZE: 15 in. x 15 in. - 38 x 38 cm

PAPER: HAHNEMUEHE LEONARDO ROUGH 425 g/m²

2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Oh yes, this is my month, my season, and my theme at the Online Art School of Jean Haines. www.watercolourinspiration.com And doing this little quartet was a lot of fun. Every evening after work I have worked a little bit on it and loved it. Started with a very loose wash and step by step finished each of these little motives. 

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Food of Fairies

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 FOOD OF FAIRIES

SIZE: 15 in. x 15 in. - 38 x 38 cm

2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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That I believe in fairytales is nothing new and so nobody wonders that I love the September theme at Jean Haines's Online Art School. All about autumn, it's colors, berries branches, the gold of leaves around is such a lovely part of nature's magic, so I can't stop playing with new and old pigment, favorites and forgotten.

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