More Toys



"More Toys"
15" x 22"
Watercolor on paper

I collected items as I walked from room to room in my parent's home that would coordinate with the tea towel I had chosen to set Mum's favourite covered mug on.  I got two of the items in this painting when she was "done using them." 

This is another watercolor from a while ago.  I wanted to share it with you and add it to my gallery.

Carol

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More Toys

"More Toys"
9" x 12"
Watercolor on paper

A newly-formed art marble took comfort in a crisp linen napkin nestled in my mother's parian bowl.  A skeptical observer kept a watchful eye on the goings on, aware of his inability to change a thing.

Overlap, stuff, fold, tuck and stack. That's one way to put this many things into a painting and keep it interesting.  I found by this time that I loved painting my mother's linens.  The addition of a live flower breathed life into the composition and I made up the background long after the subject matter was finished.  It needed more than a flat background.

This will end the current series of watercolors. Next... acrylics!

This painting is listed with, and for sale through a Dailypaintworks auction.

Thank you for visiting,
Carol

Labor of LOVE (Stamp)

"Labor of LOVE (Stamp)"
16" x 12"
Watercolor on paper

It was indeed a Labor of LOVE (Stamp) to sit in my mother's studio painting her doll-sized wicker chair without using masking fluid.  The cut work linen, a full-blown pink rose... imitating art, and another parian vase posed on a scalloped shelf against her favorite shade of aqua.

I drew the wicker and painted it first.  I was convinced if it looked right the rest would follow. The light in her studio was ambient window light.  Any additional light would have been too hot. There was no air conditioning in her Florida home.

This painting is listed with, and for sale through a Dailypaintworks auction.

Thank you for visiting,
Carol

Bennington Parian



"Bennington Parian"
10" x 14" 
Watercolor on paper 

These were the kinds of "toys" I got to play with when I visited my mother's art studio in Florida. No Nintendo there!

The blue and white plate was challenging, in that it had to be color-specific to its manufacturer.  The trinket box, vase, pitcher, bowl and ivory netsuke seemed appropriate companions to sit on one of her favorite placemats.

This painting is listed with, and for sale through a Dailypaintworks auction. 

Thank you for visiting,
Carol