We had plans to deliver, so they went first. But in the name of mixing subjects, I’m posting the watercolors first. It breaks up the constant flow of landscape drawings with Something Different. Besides, techniques used in watercolors transfer very well into techniques for rendering landscape illustrations The paintings were done on cold press watercolorContinue reading “Watercolors…”
Category Archives: Art
Sac Open Studios! art in the garden
Announcing Annette & Mike’s Sac Open Studio for September 21-22, 2019
Art in the Garden!
Sac Open Studios has been a fun event. On the first day, people walked through the gardens, friends stopped by and other friends chipped in to keep things organized and greet visitors. Yesterday started ominous with thunder and a bit of rain – even though every weather app we viewed said, “it’s sunny and beautiful!”.Continue reading “Art in the Garden!”
Sac Open Studio 2018 art ready!
We’ve been thinking of participating in this event for a while, and this year finally decided to pull the trigger and exhibit our art in the garden. After years of plein air painting, we’ve got a lot of paintings – over 150 from loose art to matted to framed and ready to hang. The showContinue reading “Sac Open Studio 2018 art ready!”
France | winter scenes
Where summer is lush and leafy, winter brings out the bones. Buildings reemerge behind trees, objects are stripped to their base elements, and weather can surprise, transforming everything it touches to an alternate version of itself. Winter’s design elements are likewise skeletal: frosty twigs, ice and stone, silhouettes and fog. There’s mystery too, beyond what’sContinue reading “France | winter scenes”
The joy of “no work”
Believe it or not I love it when the Luciole takes a break from landscaping when things are slow! Ok the fact that money entries are frozen for a while is a fact… quickly forgotten! In the meantime, the true fun begins. I paint, I splash papers with colors. Images are coming to lifeContinue reading “The joy of “no work””
Plein Air Painting
Sometimes it’s great to start the day painting on the river. Not only do we become better painters, it frees our minds to ponder designs in progress and let our subconscious process things in the background, from which they’ll eventually pop up with an “aha!”. Nothing says, “let’s play!” than a paint sale at theContinue reading “Plein Air Painting”
Making a web site adaptive.
Time waits for nobody, and technology is even more impatient. Our web site was not responsive, then it wasn’t adaptive. Now it’s adaptive, mostly. This means that beautiful big images now adapt to teeny tiny phone screens. Not only did the site need a whole new set of icons for better visual identity, it neededContinue reading “Making a web site adaptive.”
Elements of design in nature | elements of nature in design
Line, form, color, texture, contrast, pattern, repetition, movement. All elements of design to consider when creating a built landscape. Finding and studying them in nature helps us recreate them in gardens and understand natural relationships of elements of a harmonious concept. These scenes juxtapose chaos (willow branches), pattern (grasses, water plants), direction (some willow branches,Continue reading “Elements of design in nature | elements of nature in design”
Comfort Lounge: a state of the art back yard for entertaining
An industrial chic back yard that’s perfect for entertaining.