This one is finally finished and I am really happy with how it turned out -- I watched every edge very carefully when adding the background...

Getting back to bird of paradise paintings... I worked more on enriching the color and deepen the value of the petals, wetting adjacent are...

I'm taking a break from Bird of Paradise today and working on the petals of this pink rose with a more leisurely pace, wetting small ar...

This painting is finished and I have to drag my own hands from it -- no more further fiddling!!! I have to learn when to stop before fuzzin...

One of the greatest struggles of watercolor is the balance between modelling the color and value of your subject accurately, and maintain t...

The process of putting overpainting layers wet-in-wet is both exuberant and nerve-wrecking -- to created a truly integrated look, and avoid...

I've started to group my painting efforts and work on parallel projects with similar palette simultaneously, so today I worked on the c...

The background underpainting of leaves and shaded grounds is finished at this stage -- oh boy, did it take more time than I had initially p...

A very busy day outside studio running around to shop for framing materials and replenish paints, unfortunately without a lot of time dedic...

Working on two bird of paradise paintings simultaneously... It's interesting to me that the two paper have such drastically different h...