Vase I painted at the same time I was painting the flowers.

This is my favorite painting.  I love it so much I might paint it again.  I took a photo of this vase that I remember her having it literally since I was a toddler.  I placed the vase on my table near our sliding door and it was a perfect place to put it.  The post below is what I posted 3 years ago.

It has been quite along time since I have blogged.  I am still painting with Cathy Hillegas at Mt St Francis Indiana.  Soon to be moving to a new classroom.  Cathy is a wonderful teacher who has really improved my painting skills.  I decided to paint a vase that was my mothers and my first painting of glass.  It was quite an experience.  At the same time I started and finished a painting of wedding flowers for my godson.  Both were very challenging.  But I am very happy with the results.  I don't have a picture of the finished flowers but I do of the vase.  Cathy is making a giclee print of the painting of the flowers.  

This is the painting of a vase that belonged to my mother and I really wanted to paint it.  It was quite a lesson in painting glass.  I really should do it again because I learned so much doing this painting.  I painted this with Winsor Newton watercolor paints on Arches 300lb paper.

Wedding Flowers

This is my last watercolor.  It is a painting of some of the wedding flowers and my godson's wedding.  It took me a lot longer to paint this than I thought but I enjoyed watching it come alive.  It is painted on Arches 300lb with Winsor Newton paints although I do use some Daniel Smith paints.  I painted this from a photo from the wedding.

These pictures show the stages of my painting but they were taken with different camera so the light and color is different in all three.  Really prettier in person

Just starting out

Working on the middle

Finished