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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Anything but Hope

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Anything But Hope

SIZE: 11,7 in. x 8,3 in. - 29,7 x 21 cm
PAPER: CANSON COLD PRESSED 300 g/m²
COLORS:  DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS

202 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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"You don't need anything but hope. The kind of hope

 that flies on silent wings under a shining owl moon." 

 - Jane Yolen

The background wash was done as a color testing piece for "Winter has come!" and I was very pleased with it. Today I'd a second look at it and I discovered an owl waiting for me there. 

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Winter has come!

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Winter has come!

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

2022 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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With this post I would like to thank the two art schools of Jean Haines and Ali Cavanaugh for their inspiration, support and encouragement this year 2022. It is enriching and wonderful to be supported so well. I feel lucky and privileged to be a part of it.

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Send back to the Ocean 8

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Send back to the Ocean 8

SIZE: 15,7 in. x 15,7 in. - 40 x 40 cm
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Sometimes you feel that's time for returning to your comfort zone and so I've created some loose background washes and look what appears out of them. 

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Venetian Mask - III

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Venetian Mask- III

SIZE: 16,1 in. x 16,1 in. - 41 x 41 cm

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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An Icelandic Connection

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An Icelandic Connection 

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

Connecting subjects in our watercolor paintings is an exercise at Jean Haines's Online Art School. I love these special horses very much, some are living near to us in Lower Saxony, and I have visited Iceland years ago and enjoyed watching and photographing them in their natural surrounding. 


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Dear Deer!

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Dear Deer! 

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

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD ROUGH 425 g/m² - 200 lbs

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors and SCHMINCKE HORODAM watercolors

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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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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Mary's Little Lamb

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Mary's Little Lamb

SIZE:  11 in. x 15 in. - 28 x 38 cm (quarter sheet)

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD ROUGH 425 g/m² - 200 lbs

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors and SCHMINCKE HORODAM watercolors

2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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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

Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow.

And everywhere that Mary went,
the lamb was sure to go.

It followed her to school one day
which was against the rules.

It made the children laugh and play,
to see a lamb at school.

And so the teacher turned it out,
but still it lingered near,

And waited patiently about,
till Mary did appear.

“Why does the lamb love Mary so?”
the eager children cry.

“Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know.”
the teacher did reply

  

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Miracles start to happen

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Miracles start to happen

SIZE:  14,1 in. x 14,1 in. - 36 x 36 cm 

PAPER: HAHNEMUEHLE LEONARDO MOULD-MADE  ROUGH 600 g/m²

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors - SCHMINCKE HORADAM granulation watercolors

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER 

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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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Yourself

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Yourself 

SIZE:  14,1 in. x 14,1 in. - 36 x 36 cm 

PAPER: HAHNEMUEHLE TURNER 300g/m² - 140 lbs

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors - SCHMINCKE HORADAM granulation watercolors

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER 

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“You can search the whole tenfold universe and not find a single being more worthy of love and compassion than the one seated here—yourself."

- 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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Be quiet!

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Be Quiet! 

SIZE:  14,1 in. x 14,1 in. - 36 x 36 cm 

PAPER: SAUNDERS WATERFORD NOT 425 g/m² - 200 lbs

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors - SCHMINCKE HORADAM granulation watercolors

2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER 

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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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the soft soul - a Highland Cattle

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THE SOFT SOUL - A HIGHLAND CATTLE

SIZE: 11 x 15 inch. - 28 x 38 cm

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD RKB FATPAD 425g/m² (200lb) ROUGH
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors

2016 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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In this version I've tried to catch more the soft soul of this beautiful animals, done on a background wash inspired by Jean Haines teaching.

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