Watercolor Painting

3.5" x 2.5" Watercolor
This is my latest ACEO (Art Cards, Editions and Originals) If you aren't familiar with them, ACEO (and ATCs) are small works of art that are bought, and traded the same way baseball cards are. They are so much fun to make! This one is up on ebay. My ebay user name is ejmstudio or you can just search ejm to find me.

Daisy Jar 16 x 20 Watercolor on Arches Cold Press 140# My mother-in-law gave me several boxes of canning jars last summer. This one of the older ones, and thought it was just right for the daisies. Here is the painting in progress:

The drawing, darkened in photopaint so it will be visable.

First layers

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All done!

You can see more step-by-step paintings here

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle

Art happens. No hovel is safe from it, no prince can depend on it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. James A. M. Whistler

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J. K. Rowling

Apparently one impression that we are making...is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment. The fact that the people who create are good workers tends to be lost. Abraham Maslow

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." André Gide

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds?" Pablo Picasso

"I paint what I like, when I like, and where I like." David Hockney

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth."-Robert Henri

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen. - George Bernard Shaw

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. - George Bernard Shaw

Bad artists always admire each others work. - Oscar Wilde

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. - Robert Browning

A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp, referring to abstract art

Drawing is the true test of art. - J.A.D. Ingres

Art is power. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow