Elizabeth Reich

November 2018 30 prompts painted as flowers: Day 1: no flowers all about my art supplies. Day2 Food Edible Flowers Day 3 Patterns from a National Geographic photos of flora patterns...Hibiscus, loved the green and red, and the abstract star pattern. Day 4 Furry Mimosa tree flowers Day 5 Glass...which is transparent as is Diphylleia grayi aka Skeleton Flower when it rains, great photos at Bored Panda. Day 6 Perspective a study with Cosmos flowers. Day 7 Innocence the Daisy in traditional plant symbolism Day 8 Birds or perhaps the Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major) reference image from Gardening Know How.ArtSupplies_E.Reich_dwnov2018Prompt2Food_edibleflowers_ereichprompt3Patterns_e.reichprompt4Furry_Mimosaflower_e.reichprompt5glass_skeletonflower_ereichprompt6_cosmosperspectivestudy_ereichday7Innocence_daisy_ereichprompt8_flyingduckorchid_ereich

November 2018 30 prompts painted as flowers: Day 1: no flowers all about my art supplies. Day2 Food Edible Flowers Day 3 Patterns from a National Geographic photos of flora patterns...Hibiscus, loved the green and red, and the abstract star pattern. Day 4 Furry Mimosa tree flowers Day 5 Glass...which is transparent as is Diphylleia grayi aka Skeleton Flower when it rains, great photos at Bored Panda. Day 6 Perspective a study with Cosmos flowers. Day 7 Innocence the Daisy in traditional plant symbolism Day 8 Birds or perhaps the Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major) reference image from Gardening Know How.ArtSupplies_E.Reich_dwnov2018Prompt2Food_edibleflowers_ereichprompt3Patterns_e.reichprompt4Furry_Mimosaflower_e.reichprompt5glass_skeletonflower_ereichprompt6_cosmosperspectivestudy_ereichday7Innocence_daisy_ereichprompt8_flyingduckorchid_ereich

November 2018 30 prompts painted as flowers: Day 1: no flowers all about my art supplies. Day2 Food Edible Flowers Day 3 Patterns from a National Geographic photos of flora patterns...Hibiscus, loved the green and red, and the abstract star pattern. Day 4 Furry Mimosa tree flowers Day 5 Glass...which is transparent as is Diphylleia grayi aka Skeleton Flower when it rains, great photos at Bored Panda. Day 6 Perspective a study with Cosmos flowers. Day 7 Innocence the Daisy in traditional plant symbolism Day 8 Birds or perhaps the Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major) reference image from Gardening Know How.ArtSupplies_E.Reich_dwnov2018Prompt2Food_edibleflowers_ereichprompt3Patterns_e.reichprompt4Furry_Mimosaflower_e.reichprompt5glass_skeletonflower_ereichprompt6_cosmosperspectivestudy_ereichday7Innocence_daisy_ereichprompt8_flyingduckorchid_ereich

November 2018 30 prompts painted as flowers: Day 1: no flowers all about my art supplies. Day2 Food Edible Flowers Day 3 Patterns from a National Geographic photos of flora patterns...Hibiscus, loved the green and red, and the abstract star pattern. Day 4 Furry Mimosa tree flowers Day 5 Glass...which is transparent as is Diphylleia grayi aka Skeleton Flower when it rains, great photos at Bored Panda. Day 6 Perspective a study with Cosmos flowers. Day 7 Innocence the Daisy in traditional plant symbolism Day 8 Birds or perhaps the Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major) reference image from Gardening Know How.ArtSupplies_E.Reich_dwnov2018Prompt2Food_edibleflowers_ereichprompt3Patterns_e.reichprompt4Furry_Mimosaflower_e.reichprompt5glass_skeletonflower_ereichprompt6_cosmosperspectivestudy_ereichday7Innocence_daisy_ereichprompt8_flyingduckorchid_ereich

November 2018 30 prompts painted as flowers: Day 1: no flowers all about my art supplies. Day2 Food Edible Flowers Day 3 Patterns from a National Geographic photos of flora patterns...Hibiscus, loved the green and red, and the abstract star pattern. Day 4 Furry Mimosa tree flowers Day 5 Glass...which is transparent as is Diphylleia grayi aka Skeleton Flower when it rains, great photos at Bored Panda. Day 6 Perspective a study with Cosmos flowers. Day 7 Innocence the Daisy in traditional plant symbolism Day 8 Birds or perhaps the Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major) reference image from Gardening Know How.ArtSupplies_E.Reich_dwnov2018Prompt2Food_edibleflowers_ereichprompt3Patterns_e.reichprompt4Furry_Mimosaflower_e.reichprompt5glass_skeletonflower_ereichprompt6_cosmosperspectivestudy_ereichday7Innocence_daisy_ereichprompt8_flyingduckorchid_ereich

November 2018 30 prompts painted as flowers: Day 1: no flowers all about my art supplies. Day2 Food Edible Flowers Day 3 Patterns from a National Geographic photos of flora patterns...Hibiscus, loved the green and red, and the abstract star pattern. Day 4 Furry Mimosa tree flowers Day 5 Glass...which is transparent as is Diphylleia grayi aka Skeleton Flower when it rains, great photos at Bored Panda. Day 6 Perspective a study with Cosmos flowers. Day 7 Innocence the Daisy in traditional plant symbolism Day 8 Birds or perhaps the Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major) reference image from Gardening Know How.ArtSupplies_E.Reich_dwnov2018Prompt2Food_edibleflowers_ereichprompt3Patterns_e.reichprompt4Furry_Mimosaflower_e.reichprompt5glass_skeletonflower_ereichprompt6_cosmosperspectivestudy_ereichday7Innocence_daisy_ereichprompt8_flyingduckorchid_ereich

November 2018 30 prompts painted as flowers: Day 1: no flowers all about my art supplies. Day2 Food Edible Flowers Day 3 Patterns from a National Geographic photos of flora patterns...Hibiscus, loved the green and red, and the abstract star pattern. Day 4 Furry Mimosa tree flowers Day 5 Glass...which is transparent as is Diphylleia grayi aka Skeleton Flower when it rains, great photos at Bored Panda. Day 6 Perspective a study with Cosmos flowers. Day 7 Innocence the Daisy in traditional plant symbolism Day 8 Birds or perhaps the Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major) reference image from Gardening Know How.ArtSupplies_E.Reich_dwnov2018Prompt2Food_edibleflowers_ereichprompt3Patterns_e.reichprompt4Furry_Mimosaflower_e.reichprompt5glass_skeletonflower_ereichprompt6_cosmosperspectivestudy_ereichday7Innocence_daisy_ereichprompt8_flyingduckorchid_ereich

November 2018 30 prompts painted as flowers: Day 1: no flowers all about my art supplies. Day2 Food Edible Flowers Day 3 Patterns from a National Geographic photos of flora patterns...Hibiscus, loved the green and red, and the abstract star pattern. Day 4 Furry Mimosa tree flowers Day 5 Glass...which is transparent as is Diphylleia grayi aka Skeleton Flower when it rains, great photos at Bored Panda. Day 6 Perspective a study with Cosmos flowers. Day 7 Innocence the Daisy in traditional plant symbolism Day 8 Birds or perhaps the Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major) reference image from Gardening Know How.ArtSupplies_E.Reich_dwnov2018Prompt2Food_edibleflowers_ereichprompt3Patterns_e.reichprompt4Furry_Mimosaflower_e.reichprompt5glass_skeletonflower_ereichprompt6_cosmosperspectivestudy_ereichday7Innocence_daisy_ereichprompt8_flyingduckorchid_ereich

Prompt 1: Art Supplies In November I hope to take the next 29 prompts Doodlewash provides and apply them to FLOWERS. ArtSupplies_E.Reich_dwnov2018

Wrapping up a 2 week opportunity to be part of Angela Fehr\'s Lovely Loose Flowers Facebook group, while working through her related class. Painting of Apple Blossoms, lesson 6, on left practice work, and on right the painting of Apple blossoms. What a great opportunity a gift of Doodlewash points provided! appleblossoms

On a walk I discovered this unusual specimen of a flower. Brought one home to study as a still life. I have learned it is called a Red Spider Lily (lycoris radiata). Perfect for the month of October (spiders & Halloween) & Artists Magazines color story featured the color Scarlet for the month of October. I used Quinacridone Coral (aka Quinacridone Red), Arches 140lb cold press paper, and a 1/4\" sword [brush].redspiderlily_ereich

I\'ve been busy with a local class and Kateri Ewing\'s Craftsy Class--Startup Library: Painting with Watercolors. While she uses a split primary palette +3 additional colors...I decided to take all the colors I had, and liked, from previous instructors to create this color chart. Completed watercolor mixing chart. What I learned from doing this. • The stair step chart has become my preferred means of charting various mixes of watercolors. @scratchmadejournal.com/guides-and-printables • I have found similar color mixes on this chart, helpful in choosing my pigments. • Go by pigment code because some are given different color names by different brands and color appearance varies little to none, unless a second pigment color is added. (e.g. PR101 light red, mars brown, venetian red, indian red, burnt sienna, sepia) @handprint.com/HP/WCL/watere.html#PR101 • Don\'t let the cat in...even if she wishes to be the studio cat. • Out of tube greens are not natural and must be mixed with an earth yellow, or most any blue to look from nature. • Single Pigment Quinacridone Gold (PO49), now no longer available, appears to be a brighter version of Yellow Ochre (PY43). • I could probably go without the buff titanium, and be a traditionalist...use the white of my paper and tint the colors lighter using appropriate water to paint ratio. Next step, narrowing my palette. colorchart

I was recently gifted some Doodle points towards my wish list. I picked up Angela Fehr\'s Course \"Loovely Loose Florals in watercolour\" The first image of circles I actually did a few weeks back, at the end of a long stressful week as a meditative exercise. Interesting that Angela\'s first exercise is a Circle Excercise, where she reminds us these are circles not flowers yet...thanks literal subconscious mind for producing an under painting of flowers (picture 2). Picture 3 is from Lessons 3 and 4 where one makes decisions for the details, maybe use a reference photo (I used Claire Waite Brown\'s \"the watercolor flower artist\'s bible\" for inspiration. I feel like my paintings dry appearing overworked, which painting 1 is probably the case. But in picture 2 was glazed and had details added in for picture 3. I followed Angela\'s suggestion of one stroke, thin then do it and be done. What are the causes for an artwork to appear overworked? IMG_20180815_095658114IMG_20180831_181551948IMG_20180903_143454993

I was recently gifted some Doodle points towards my wish list. I picked up Angela Fehr\'s Course \"Loovely Loose Florals in watercolour\" The first image of circles I actually did a few weeks back, at the end of a long stressful week as a meditative exercise. Interesting that Angela\'s first exercise is a Circle Excercise, where she reminds us these are circles not flowers yet...thanks literal subconscious mind for producing an under painting of flowers (picture 2). Picture 3 is from Lessons 3 and 4 where one makes decisions for the details, maybe use a reference photo (I used Claire Waite Brown\'s \"the watercolor flower artist\'s bible\" for inspiration. I feel like my paintings dry appearing overworked, which painting 1 is probably the case. But in picture 2 was glazed and had details added in for picture 3. I followed Angela\'s suggestion of one stroke, thin then do it and be done. What are the causes for an artwork to appear overworked? IMG_20180815_095658114IMG_20180831_181551948IMG_20180903_143454993

I was recently gifted some Doodle points towards my wish list. I picked up Angela Fehr\'s Course \"Loovely Loose Florals in watercolour\" The first image of circles I actually did a few weeks back, at the end of a long stressful week as a meditative exercise. Interesting that Angela\'s first exercise is a Circle Excercise, where she reminds us these are circles not flowers yet...thanks literal subconscious mind for producing an under painting of flowers (picture 2). Picture 3 is from Lessons 3 and 4 where one makes decisions for the details, maybe use a reference photo (I used Claire Waite Brown\'s \"the watercolor flower artist\'s bible\" for inspiration. I feel like my paintings dry appearing overworked, which painting 1 is probably the case. But in picture 2 was glazed and had details added in for picture 3. I followed Angela\'s suggestion of one stroke, thin then do it and be done. What are the causes for an artwork to appear overworked? IMG_20180815_095658114IMG_20180831_181551948IMG_20180903_143454993

It\'s National Lemon Meringue Pie Day...while baking this type of pie has yet to work out for me...I can paint a lemon and leave the pie to pastry chefs. lemonbyelizabethreich

Exotic Location, the Plumeria flower from Hawai\'i, usually seen in the form of leis. I attempted the white Plumeria I had a photo of, and while I understand theory of painting a white flower, today the execution was not going well. So I present to you my sketches and initial attempt. I opted to bring in watercolor pencils, water-soluble wax pastels, and traditional watercolor pigment. WorldWatercolorMonth_Day30ExoticLocation

Childhood Memories brought many memories to mind, I decided to represent being creative. Early childhood memories of coloring with Crayola Crayons, and vaguely remembering periwinkle and shades of purples being my favorite. And then there was paint-with-water books, and fingerpaints, as well as the 8 ovals of Crayola watercolor. The crayons were created using water-soluble wax pastels Turquoise Green and Lilac are Neocolor II Aquarelles while the Periwinkle is from American Journey (Cheap Joe\'s Art Stuff). WorldWatercolorMonth_Day29ChildhoodMemories

Day28 Nature Hike from memory and a reference photo of a past hike along a nature trail in the woods and around a mountain lake. WorldWatercolorMonth_Day28NatureHike

Day27 Clouds In The Sky a view from a window of an airplane. The concept of painting the holes in the sky, the blue between the clouds, from Jo MacKenzie was helpful on the second sketch. WorldWatercolorMonth_day27CloudsintheSky

Day26 Splashing Around...I took this literally, my imagination ran away today, I splashed a few different paintings, this was my favorite. WorldWatercolorMonth_day26_SplashingAround

Day25 Farm Life...I remember fresh eggs from my Grandfather\'s backyard farm. I still seek fresh farm eggs at the Farmers Market. So I bring you Still Life with Egg. WorldWatercolorMonth_Day25FarmLife

Day24 Monochromatic Mood...abstracted landscape of birch trees in Green from PG& Phthalo Green (blue shade) Daniel Smith and PR122 Magenta QOR. WorldWaterColorMonth_Day24MonochromaticMood

Day23 Furry Creatures our furry pet cats. worldWatercolormonth_day23FurryCreatures

Day22 Under the Sea you will find Jellyfish and their ethereal beauty. worldwatercolormonth_day22UndertheSea

Day21 Glorious Golds...a sunflower with gold metallic paints to add highlights to the center. WorldWatercolorMonth_Day21_GloriusGolds

Day20 Wet & Dry creating a sheet to show a few techniques. WorldWatercolorMonth_Day20 WetandDry

Day19 Rainy Days create dewdrops and an opportunity to try my Hand at Soon Warren\'s Dewdrops on Petal exercise in her book Painting Vibrant Flowers. worldwatercolormonth_day19RainyDays

Day18 In the Jungle or perhaps or Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, in the Orchid Garden. World Watercolor Month_Day18_IntheJungle