Janet Salmons

Not a very exotic location– on my patio. There were no clouds in the blue Colorado sky, no rainy days. Too colorful for monochromatic… So I was “prompted” to try to improve perspective, and get some sense of sunlight and shadow. #WorldWatercolorMonth IMG_1291exotic

I haven’t tried a lot of urban sketching…but for the city life prompt I pulled out a picture from London. My B & B was on Gower Street in Bloomsbury. While there, I read a book about Virginia Woolf’s years in that very same neighborhood.
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A few glorious gold flowers. #WorldWatercolorMonth Gold

Time is running out! Nature hike, with wet and dry techniques, and shadows! I used colored pencils and Conte crayons plus watercolor. #WorldWatercolorMonth IMG_1279

In February we went to Kauai, and I painted postcards of the ocean. In Colorado, we have lakes, streams, and rivers– not the beach exactly! Here I am playing with a very cool refillable Japanese brush pen from JetPens. #WorldWatercolorMonth IMG_126020180225_132848_Burst01