This time of year, my watercolors all seem to include glimpses of water. It’s a favorite place to be in the heat of summer! Whether I’m enjoying life at a lake or just filling birdbaths around our yard, it’s a joy to see the variety of wildlife who also benefit from the clear waters of this area – orioles coming in to feed babies at the grape jelly, wrens churring territorial warnings, loons calling from the lake and the errant doe who comes every night to drink all the water in our big birdbath! When painting water, I love the many effects possible with watercolors – yes, always preserving the white spaces of the paper, but then letting the colors blend to form lively currents or to reflect the deeper shades below the surface.
I just delivered three of my Liltie Series watercolors to Arts in Hand Gallery in Spooner, WI: Sunset Shadows; Pure Bliss; and Forest Stream. I call these 4" x 6" "lilties" because that's the Irish word for brief tunes, and I think of these smaller paintings as brief "watercolor songs."
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