Jeanne Anderson Watercolors

I know. I paint a lot of flowers. In my defense, I enjoy it, they make me happy. So what if I can't paint people, horses or buildings, there are plenty of people who can. I've painted about 25 greeting cards since the weekend. Lots and lots of flowers!

I've been trying to put some new life into my art business lately. I've made a schedule for myself. Mondays I work on class planning, Tuesdays I update my Etsy shop (www.etsy.com/IndigoStreetStudio) and Wednesdays I try to update my blog (wow, look at that, a day early this week! Yay Me!!!) On Thursdays and Fridays I am teaching classes at our church to homeschooled students and to some lovely adults. In addition to these activities, I've been trying to make sketchbook entries, although admittedly, I'm less disciplined with this. Recently, I made the bold decision to submit my artwork for the Shemer Arizona Arts Festival. If I am juried into the show, I will be showing and selling my artwork at Shemer Art Center (in Scottsdale) on November 4 & 5. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with having submitted my artwork, but I am confident that if this is a good step forward (or backward) for my business. So, while I wait to be notified of whether I've been accepte...

My high school art class has been working on watercolor flower paintings for 2 weeks now. First they chose a reference photo from my stash and transferred the image to 140# Arches cold pressed paper. We kept the image on the smaller side to make it more manageable, 9 x 6". Each student has their own unique style and it is a blast to watch the paintings take shape.

I saw a post on Getting My Art Wings Back (http://myartwings.blogspot.com/2012/12/grade-6-patterned-tree-designs.html) about patterned tree designs and I thought I would try this with my middle school class. So far this semester we have talked a little about color theory - primary, secondary, complimentary and autologous colors. We've talked about tints (adding white) and shades (adding black. They've worked with acrylic and watercolors so far as well as doing weekly pencil drawings in their own sketchbooks. This lesson seemed to tie in a lot of the color theory, the acrylic painting techniques and the simple drawings that we've been working on. I forgot to take photos during class (well, I was busy!). First I let them pick any color (except really light colors like yellow or aqua). They were to paint a gradient wash over the whole paper (12X18") from darkest on top down to lightest on bottom. They added black to their color for the darkest shades and decreased tha...

Thought you might like to see the paintings that I made for my sister, Caroline. She and her husband Tim had their kitchen redone. It's a gorgeous, functional kitchen. I feel privileged that my painting get to grace the wall above the sink! :)

This is my most recent attempt at acrylic pour painting. I used a different method - Youtube is an endless source of methods. It didn't turn out quite like I wanted it to but the experience helped me for next time.

These two are for my sister, Caroline. I gave her a painting last year and she asked for 2 coordinating pieces for her kitchen. Happy to oblige!