

FLOWER DOODLES
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Flowers, Watercolor

POPPIES IN WATERCOLOR
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Flowers, Watercolor

ART SUPPLIES IN MONOTONE
by Tracye
This was an exercise from my class with watercolorist Shari Blaukopf. Working with one color will help you to recognize values easier before moving on to trickier color combinations. Edge work is also easier with the one color. Here, I used Peach Black from Holbein but a variety of colors that can be worked dark to light include: Indigo, Paynes Grey, Sepia and Burnt Sienna.
Categories: Art • Tags: Shari Blaukopf Workshop, Still Life, Watercolor

BUTTERFLIES IN PINK
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Line and Wash, Watercolor

MOD FLOWERS
by Tracye
Categories: Art

Colorful Carrots
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Fruit, Watercolor

RED POPPIES
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Flowers, Watercolor

Flower Doodles
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Flowers, Gansai Tambi Watercolor, Line and Wash, Watercolor

Slices
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Fruit, Watercolor

Mocha Milk Shake
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Recipes, Watercolor

3 Pears
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Fruit, Pears, Still Life, Watercolor

Schminke Horadam Aquarell Swatches
by Tracye
ALL THE COLORS !!! ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
Categories: Art • Tags: Palettes, Schminke Watercolor, Watercolor

Strawberry Cinnamon Rolls
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Recipes, Still Life, Watercolor

Margarita Cupcakes
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Fruit, Recipes, Still Life, Watercolor

Mixing Greens
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Palettes, Watercolor

Qiang Huang Workshop- Ann Arbor
by Tracye
In preparation for his upcoming workshop in Austin, Tx, I remembered some photos from one of his previous workshops. Here is his palette consisting of: naples yellow, yellow ochre, cad light, cad orange,alizarin crimson, cad red, transparent oxide red,ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, phtalo blue, perm green light. This is the first still life set up. He uses five steps in this painting: placement, value, color, modeling and consolidation. Below is an example of the value […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Oil Painting, Quiang Huang Workshop, Still Life

Golden Pear 1
by Tracye
5×7 Watercolor on Arches
Categories: Art • Tags: Fruit, Pearology, Watercolor

Yellow Pear
by Tracye
5×7 Watercolor on Arches
Categories: Art • Tags: Fruit, Pearology, Watercolor

Little Green Pear
by Tracye
I enjoyed the online class “Pearology” with artist Martha Lever. This is a fun class working in watercolors using the glazing method. Starting out with very light washes of light yellow pigments and gradually layering in a bit of quinacrodone gold. Here is a link for the workshop Pearology Class.
Categories: Art • Tags: Fruit, Pearology, Watercolor

Judith Carducci Portrait Workshop
by Tracye
This fall I had the pleasure of attending a portrait drawing workshop with Judith Carducci in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The workshop was an intense 5 day drawing excursion using mostly charcoal and few colors. Judith believes that as artists we get to enarmored with color before our basics have been mastered. Here she is at work on the first day with the model An example of her portrait work. Here is one of her demos using a […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Judith Carducci Workshop, Pastel, Portraits

30 Paintings in 30 Days (Day 6)
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: 30 in 30, Flowers, Watercolor

30 Paintings in 30 Days (Day 5)
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: 30 in 30, Flowers, Watercolor

30 Paintings in 30 Days (Day 3)
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: 30 in 30, Flowers, Watercolor

30 Paintings in 30 Days (Day 2)
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: 30 in 30, Flowers, Watercolor

Happy New Year!
by Tracye
Categories: Sketches • Tags: 30 in 30, Flowers, Watercolor

One Watercolor A Day-Exercise 8
by Tracye
Categories: Art • Tags: Watercolor

Day 7-One Watercolor A Day
by Tracye
Categories: Sketches

Barn Swallow
by Tracye
Categories: Sketches • Tags: Birds, Watercolor

Pears in Wine Sauce
by Tracye
I am a bit late in starting the Leslie Saeta Painting Challenge but here goes.
Categories: Art • Tags: Fruit, Watercolor

EDM #1 Draw A Shoe
by Tracye
Categories: Sketches • Tags: Line and Wash

The Cardinal-Paint Colorful Birds Week 28
by Tracye
Categories: Sketches