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1/2 of my IWS submission

This painting, along with my self portrait titled “This Too Shall Pass” will be my submission for this year’s Illinois Watercolor Society.  Any critique would be much appreciated.
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New Painting Friday!

I finally finished this painting. I am very happy to have it off my board because now I get to focus on my Thailand paintings. It did not turn out how I expected, the great thing about the unexpected though is that you learn a few new things. For instance, did you know hair makes [...]
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30 Days/300 Figures

Week 3: Gallery Day By Day Day 10: I realized that these stick figures are actually really helping me see the angles of the body in a different way. I must concentrate on the figure as a whole and think more about the abstract shapes that it makes as one.  Who knew you could learn from from stick [...]
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30 Days/300 Figures: Week 2

Week 2 I decided to change things up a bit, out of necessity and to try something different. I love Sharon’s style so I decided to take a small tip from her work. While Sharon does do the full figure, I wanted to work as fast as she does. I was very distracted this week [...]
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30 Days/ 300 Figures

Premise: Sharon over at ArtBySaw just finished a project she titled 50 Cars/50 Days. I know, her title creativity is genius. Anyway, she wanted to start something else and she came up with 30 Days/300 Figures. I believe she changed the title of it, but whatever. I jumped on the bandwagon and here we go…. Day 1. It’s [...]
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Watercolor Figure

I took a break from finishing my landscape painting to knock this little sketch out.  I am planning on doing two small figure/portraits and one larger one as well as thinking about two smaller midwest themed paintings.  I am also working on the post that shows the process of the landscape painting. Note: Originally posted on [...]
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Self-Portrait

This Too Shall Pass Explanation: The last few months I have felt the loss of my mom more strongly than I ever have. It’s been a knot in my chest. The depression that has accompanied that has been very difficult to shake.  While I was much more productive the last semester of school than I had [...]
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Mouth and Chin

News: Two of my WIPs are online at DeviantArt. The link is to the left. I have two more, but one is a surprise and they both need to be finished by Friday. I don’t want to take the time to load them twice in a few days because I now have a lot of [...]
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20 Minute Hand Study

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1 Hour Gesture

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