Mother Owl and Baby

This is my oil painting of a long eared owl.

 relatively uncommon and very seldom

 spotted around here   

they are here in the winter 

and spend the summer farther to the north in Canada.

I like the rusty reddish color of its feathers

and its white" mustache and beard "

I wanted it to appear to be at night
in the moonlight

I painted on a large

(36 " by 16 ")

piece of old roofing slate

at least I think it used to be part of a roof at one time

painting on slate is very different 

I think it is fun to work with the bumpiness of its surface

 It works well with the palette knife style I used

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Watercolor Floral Fun

Pink-o-lucious Rose

Watercolor 

on 140 lb paper

mounted on a one in board that is distressed

I have just finished doing a group of watercolor floral paintings. 

Here's the truth!

 I haven't had a lot of experience at watercolor technique,

(Please don't be too very critical)

 as always... I like to experiment on my own and see what I can come up with. 

 I have been wanting to do something a little different

 than my thick, color intense palette knife style paintings.  

Although I will always go back to doing that palette knife stuff 

because it is such a fun way to paint. 

... and people seem to like my oil paintings with the textual palette style.

So here is the start of my new paintings.  

I began with 140 lb paper and neatly torn edges.

 I planned from the beginning to make these a distressed look, when finished.

watercolored paper is 140 lb 

various floral looks inspired by
daisy, lily and rose
some of my "girl-friends"

old fashioned rose mounted on distressed wood board.

tiger lily

I think the two tiger lily ones would look good together so i made them a similar shape and size

wooden boards left over from a different project are cut to different sizes
 to fit the size of the paper flowers

I painted them black first
then many coats of white,
 then a light violet blue
"Deco Art" -  Blue Harbor

a light stain of oak to seal the board and show the sanded edges more
I sanded the boards on the edges as you can see here

tiny nail on the corners to hold the paper onto the board
I also put a few dots of hot glue under the edges
The needle-nose plyers help me hold the little nail straight to pound it in each corner 

here you see the tiny golden nail
in the corner
I like how it looks

Finished product ready to hang

measures just 5 by 6 inches
perfect size for a pink o licious Rose

Sure was fun doing these watercolors
I plan to post the others when they are finished being mounted on the board and distressed also

KAT
or Kat's Nature


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