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Poppies

I created this for the Kaligrafos 2010 Card Exchange. The quote around the poppies reads, "I am following Nature without being able to grasp her. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." Materials: watercolors & gouache.

thine

This is in my personal collection. Lettering style is a pointed pen variation inspired by Mike Kecseg complimented with Watercolor flowers.

Kaligrafos

I created this logo for Kaligrafos a few years ago. The technique uses a folded pen. The letters are made with "dirty water" which is basically water with just a hint of walnut ink. There should be enough water to pool, then you drop in bright waterbased colors. They tend to blend nicely creating a rainbow effect.

Texas

Some friends were moving back to the UK and asked me to create a Texas themed farewell. I drew the shape of Texas with friskett (glue-ish material), let it dry. Then loosely painted over it with watercolor. Once the paint was dry, I pulled the friskett off of the paper which revealed the white paper underneath.

Winter Wonderland

I took a watercolor class from Donna Sabolovic years ago. In this exercise we could use only one color, but in different hues. Start with the lightest shade of blue, then keep adding pigment to get the darker shades of blue. I was pleasantly surprised by the end result. In fact, I used this as my Christmas card that year.