World Watercolor Month - Day 20 California dreaming - Bouganvilla

Hi Everyone!

Today I'm sharing my prompt for day 20 - which is called California Dreaming - for World Watercolor Month :

I use Winsor Newtons Artists' (- Professional as they now are called )watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb Arches rough or fine.
I also share my watercolors and cards here:  My Instagram
If you want to see more of my watercolors, you can view them HERE or in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a greatday, hugs, Karin

World watercolor month day 18 Furry Friends

Hi Everyone!

Today I combinded the promt for day 18 with a pet portrait comission of this Beautiful Golden Retriever called Ramsey;

The colors I used for this one: Raw and burnt sienna, burnt umber, french ultramarine, alizarin crimson, quin gold, neutral tint, sepia

I use Winsor Newtons Artists' (- Professional as they now are called ) watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb Arches rough or fine.
I also share my watercolors and cards here:  My Instagram
If you want to see more of my watercolors, you can view them HERE or in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a greatday, hugs, Karin

Sunday Watercolor World Watercolor month day 21-22

Hi Everyone!

Today I'm sharing my prompts for day 21-22 for World Watercolor month :

# 21 Summer Colors

This one (above) is from Gotland , the island off the Swedish east coast. And Gotland simply  is summer to me (-: . 

#22 Wind in the Trees

The second one is for the prompt #22  Wind in the trees - This is a painting I made from a sketch I made while I was waiting for my dear hubby to complete his orienteering race (I had a shorter race) at Lindome, Barnsjön (Childlake (-: ) last year. 

To be honest there wasn't a lot of wind that day, but enough to qualify, dont you think (-: 

I think the prompts should be used as inspiration and to me it's been a great reason to get the things that have been in my "want to paint folder" done.

I use Winsor Newtons Artists' (- Professional as they now are called )watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb Arches rough or fine.
I also share my watercolors and cards here:  My Instagram
If you want to see more of my watercolors, you can view them HERE or in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a greatday, hugs, Karin

Catching up on World Watercolor month! Prompts / days 2-6

Prompt # 6 - on the boardwalk for #WorldWatercolorMonth

How easy it is to be caught up in too many details when you work from a photo. When I was done with the first  (#2 here) I was so disappointed and was going to throw it away and start something new but I had paint left on my pallett and took out a small scrap piece of paper - the quality wasn't very good at all - but this time I let go of the photo and painted from memory - guess which one I'm happiest about!! (-;

The photo is from last year from Källö Knippla in the Swedish archipelago and it has been in my - to paint folder since then - for the promt for day seven i finally got use for it!

Day 2 In the shade 

Day 3 - Sea Shells

  Day 4 - red blue and White

Day 5  Summer skies

I use watercolors from @DanielSmith and @winsorandnewton and 140 lb paper from Arches (Natural white grain fine)

For more info: I share my creative projects here: https://www.instagram.com/peppermintpatty42/

and on my blog:

http://peppermintpattys-papercraft.blogspot.se

and on pinterest; https://www.pinterest.se/peppermint42/my-watercolors/

#WorldWatercolorMonth

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 31 : Seal

Hi! I'm playing along with the 31-day Watercolor challenge on Charlie O'Shield's (Doodlewash) blog called #WorldWatercolorMonth. Charlie started this to inspire people to paint but also to raise awareness for children in need of art supplies and art education around the globe!.

#WorldWatercolorMonth

It's the last day, and today I left the prompts and painted a seal just because I wanted to try to capture the beautiful fur.

I still have some paintings I need to photograph but tomorrow I'll be back sharing a collage of my paintings for this wonderful month!

For more info about WWM  click this image:

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

I'm also sharing this with the wonderful 30-day coloring challenge that super talented Kathy Racoosing is hosting again this year .

#thedailymarker30day

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 28 Baby

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 29 - Baby

Hi! I'm playing along with the 31-day Watercolor challenge on Charlie O'Shield's (Doodlewash) blog called #WorldWatercolorMonth. Charlie started this to inspire people to paint but also to raise awareness for children in need of art supplies and art education around the globe!.

#WorldWatercolorMonth

For more info click this image:

I'm using Charie's prompts page where he has suggested a subject for each day and today's theme was: Sea Shells.

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 26: Berries - Rosenips

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 26: Berries

Hi! I'm playing along with the 31-day Watercolor challenge on Charlie O'Shield's (Doodlewash) blog called #WorldWatercolorMonth. Charlie started this to inspire people to paint but also to raise awareness for children in need of art supplies and art education around the globe!.

#WorldWatercolorMonth

I'm also sharing this with the wonderful 30-day coloring challenge that super talented Kathy Racoosing is hosting again this year .

#thedailymarker30day

For more info click this image:

I'm using Charie's prompts page where he has suggested a subject for each day and today's theme was: Sea Shells.

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

Happy Painting, hugs, Karin

I've created a page HERE with pictures of subjects I've painted in case you'd like to use them for reference. You are more than welcome to use them for your creative projects as long as you let me know and link back to my blog.

Seashell Flower Fruit Feather Dessert Dinner Trees Bird Mountain Pet Favorite Drink Vegetable Breakfast Leaves Silverware Nuts Coffee Cup Flowers Insect Windmill Zoo Animal Figure Drawing Musical Instrument Clothing Self-Portrait Berries Goldfish Baby Seascape Jellyfish Fireworks

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 21 Zoo animal

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 21 Zoo animal

Hi! I'm playing along with the 31-day Watercolor challenge on Charlie O'Shield's (Doodlewash) blog called #WorldWatercolorMonth. Charlie started this to inspire people to paint but also to raise awareness for children in need of art supplies and art education around the globe!.

#WorldWatercolorMonth

For more info click this image:

I'm using Charie's prompts page where he has suggested a subject for each day and today's theme was: Sea Shells.

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

Happy Painting, hugs, Karin

I've created a page HERE with pictures of subjects I've painted in case you'd like to use them for reference. You are more than welcome to use them for your creative projects as long as you let me know and link back to my blog.

Seashell Flower Fruit Feather Dessert Dinner Trees Bird Mountain Pet Favorite Drink Vegetable Breakfast Leaves Silverware Nuts Coffee Cup Flowers Insect Windmill Zoo Animal Figure Drawing Musical Instrument Clothing Self-Portrait Berries Goldfish Baby Seascape Jellyfish Fireworks

I'm also sharing this with the wonderful 30-day coloring challenge that super talented Kathy Racoosing is hosting again this year .

#thedailymarker30day

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 15 and 17 Silver ware and coffe cup

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 15 and 17 Silver ware and coffe cup

Hi! I'm playing along with the 31-day Watercolor challenge on Charlie O'Shield's (Doodlewash) blog called #WorldWatercolorMonth. And Oh My is this a challenge! Silverware ??? My comfort zone is landscape painting where there aren't really rules for how stones or trees might look - but a spoon must look like a spoon lol... Here's my attempt. I used my beautiful Måsen (seagull) coffee cup that I collected when I was younger. I don't remember when I used them last, but now I got a reason to look at them closely (-:

#WorldWatercolorMonth

For more info click this image:

I'm using Charie's prompts page where he has suggested a subject for each day and today's theme was: Sea Shells.

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

Happy Painting, hugs, Karin

I've created a page HERE with pictures of subjects I've painted in case you'd like to use them for reference. You are more than welcome to use them for your creative projects as long as you let me know and link back to my blog.

Seashell Flower Fruit Feather Dessert Dinner Trees Bird Mountain Pet Favorite Drink Vegetable Breakfast Leaves Silverware Nuts Coffee Cup Flowers Insect Windmill Zoo Animal Figure Drawing Musical Instrument Clothing Self-Portrait Berries Goldfish Baby Seascape Jellyfish Fireworks

I'm also sharing this with the wonderful 30-day coloring challenge that super talented Kathy Racoosing is hosting again this year .

#thedailymarker30day

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 12 Vegetables

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 12 Vegetables

Hi! I'm playing along with the 31-day Watercolor challenge on Charlie O'Shield's (Doodlewash) blog called #WorldWatercolorMonth. Charlie started this to inspire people to paint but also to raise awareness for children in need of art supplies and art education around the globe!.

Here it is half way through!

#WorldWatercolorMonth

For more info click this image:

I'm using Charie's prompts page where he has suggested a subject for each day and today's theme was: Sea Shells.

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

Today I have a card for the wonderful 30-day coloring challenge that super talented Kathy Racoosing is hosting again this year - and do I agree with her when she says that coloring, if only for a few minutes a day makes you so much happier. This time I used watercolor pencils from Derwents which makes watercoloring so fast and easy!

#thedailymarker30day

I will also share this with wee stamps summer challenge called Butterflies and flowers.

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 10: Pet

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 10 Pet

Hi! I'm playing along with the 31-day Watercolor challenge on Charlie O'Shield's (Doodlewash) blog called #WorldWatercolorMonth. Charlie started this to inspire people to paint but also to raise awareness for children in need of art supplies and art education around the globe!.

#WorldWatercolorMonth

For more info click this image:

I'm using Charie's prompts page where he has suggested a subject for each day and today's theme was: Sea Shells.

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

Happy Painting, hugs, Karin

I've created a page HERE with pictures of subjects I've painted in case you'd like to use them for reference. You are more than welcome to use them for your creative projects as long as you let me know and link back to my blog.

Seashell Flower Fruit Feather Dessert Dinner Trees Bird Mountain Pet Favorite Drink Vegetable Breakfast Leaves Silverware Nuts Coffee Cup Flowers Insect Windmill Zoo Animal Figure Drawing Musical Instrument Clothing Self-Portrait Berries Goldfish Baby Seascape Jellyfish Fireworks

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 7: Trees, Day 8: Bird Day 9: Mountains

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 7: Trees, Day 8: Bird Day 9: Mountain

Hi! I'm catching up on the  31-day Watercolor challenge I'm playing along with on Charlie O'Shield's (Doodlewash) blog called #WorldWatercolorMonth. Charlie started this to inspire people to paint but also to raise awareness for children in need of art supplies and art education around the globe!.

#WorldWatercolorMonth

Well, I could hardly fit any more trees into this painting could I? Great practice!

 For my mountains I got frustrated and threw it in the waste, but then thought I might as well share my effort and took some pictures of it before I cut it apart to use as scraps for testing colors. Now that I look at it two days later I think I could as well have given it another chance...

And last is a quick sketch of a bird... Now on to tackle Day 10 - A Pet - will be fun!

Have a great day!

For more info click this image:

I'm using Charie's prompts page where he has suggested a subject for each day and today's theme was: Sea Shells.

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

And this was my painting for my ordinary post called Sunday Watercolors:

Happy Painting, hugs, Karin

I've created a page HERE with pictures of subjects I've painted in case you'd like to use them for reference. You are more than welcome to use them for your creative projects as long as you let me know and link back to my blog.

The month's prompts are: 

Seashell Flower Fruit Feather Dessert Dinner Trees Bird Mountain Pet Favorite Drink Vegetable Breakfast Leaves Silverware Nuts Coffee Cup Flowers Insect Windmill Zoo Animal Figure Drawing Musical Instrument Clothing Self-Portrait Berries Goldfish Baby Seascape Jellyfish Fireworks

I'm also entering the trees for the wonderful 30-day coloring challenge that super talented Kathy Racoosing is hosting again this year - and do I agree with her when she says that coloring, if only for a few minutes a day makes you so much happier. When I paint or color I forget everything round me and totally relax. What if I could finish off my workday by coloring for 15 minutes - I'd come home a much better person. (-: 

#thedailymarker30day

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

#5 and # 6 Dessert and Dinner

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 5 and 6 : Dessert and Dinner

Hi! I'm playing along with the 31-day Watercolor challenge on Charlie O'Shield's (Doodlewash) blog called #WorldWatercolorMonth. Charlie started this to inspire people to paint but also to raise awareness for children in need of art supplies and art education around the globe!.

#WorldWatercolorMonth

For more info click this image:

I'm using Charie's prompts page where he has suggested a subject for each day and today's and yesterday's themes were Dessert and Dinner.

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

Happy Painting, hugs, Karin

I've created a page HERE with pictures of subjects I've painted in case you'd like to use them for reference. You are more than welcome to use them for your creative projects as long as you let me know and link back to my blog.

For today's painting though I didn't want to cook just to have something to paint so I used this one from olivemagazine as reference:

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 4: Feathers

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 4: Feathers

#WorldWatercolorMonth Day 1: Sea shells

Hi! I'm playing along with the 31-day Watercolor challenge on Charlie O'Shield's (Doodlewash) blog called #WorldWatercolorMonth. Charlie started this to inspire people to paint but also to raise awareness for children in need of art supplies and art education around the globe!.

#WorldWatercolorMonth

For more info click this image:

I'm using Charie's prompts page where he has suggested a subject for each day and today's theme was: Feathers.

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

Happy Painting, hugs, Karin

I've created a page HERE with pictures of subjects I've painted in case you'd like to use them for reference. You are more than welcome to use them for your creative projects as long as you let me know and link back to my blog.