at the seashore

Posted on September 30, 2014 by csir2014

This sketch is from my trip to visit my daughter and granddaughter in the Wilmington, NC area. We had a lovely lunch on an inland waterway in Carolina Beach. Sketch took as long as it took to choose and get our lunch, probably 20 minutes with pigma micron felt pen in my trusty moleskin sketchbook.

Then we went to the beach in Liz’s jeep wrangler. Carolina Beach. Beautiful family place. Nice and clean with great warm surf to play in.

This beach view is also in my moleskin, felt pen and my new Derwent intense watercolor pencils.

From my visit last Spring. Wrightsville Beach. Painted in my studio from a photo. Watercolor on arches paper.

I love visiting North Carolina!

Who says you can’t work on a watercolor forever?

Posted on September 17, 2014 by csir2014

I started this painting, pure transparent watercolor, last winter, entered it in three shows. No successes!

So, decided to begin by washing off most of the color, especially the greens, and then covered a lot of it with white gouache. Then color, then gouache, then tinted gouache, then watercolor, and more watercolor.

Tried cropping it in iPhoto.

Then cut it in half, added more color. Done for the time being. One of those paintings that gets too much attention!

6 of my paintings and sketches are included in the “You Are Here” Painting for Preservation Exhibition at Artspace Buffalo Gallery,219 Main Street, Buffalo. The Show runs from September 12 to October 4. The opening reception is tonight!, Friday, September 12th, 6-8. Lots of nice heartfelt work. https://www.facebook.com/paintingforpreservation?ref=hl

I love where I live, and derive inspiration from my husband, Tom Palamuso’s creations, both inside and out.

Painting For Preservation, August 12, 2014, Black Rock Locks, Canal on the Niagara River

Posted on September 9, 2014 by csir2014

The Army Corps of Engineers opened up the Locks at Black Rock Canal adjacent to the Niagara River to artists and members of Painting for Preservation. It was a beautiful day; a day to paint or sketch or photograph one of our Western New York treasures with other artists and believers in preservation of our environment.

From the P4P blog,http://paintingforpreservation.blogspot.com:

“Welcome to Painting for Preservation! This initiative, founded by artist Sara M. Zak, is aimed at drawing attention to distressed, at-risk, and under-utilized historic locations through on site art making.

Mission: To bring together artists of all media in support of historic distressed properties and communities. To create artwork on-site related to the location as a means of raising positive awareness of the space.”