Alex Powers

I am working my way through Alex Powers "Painting People in Watercolor". Great book, new ideas. He is a master at techniques I am only beginning to explore. He also validates "breaking the rules". I honestly get heck from some people (painter's included) but I am learning to ignore them better and more often.

Rose colored glasses

This is one of the paintings I am working on for the next artrageuos show. The colors are actually nicer, it is so gray today I can't get good light to photograph by. We had a couple of inches of snow this morning. SNOW! It ususally doesn't arrive until the end of October.

I think this one is nearly done. I hope to put a very thin yellow glaze over the whole works. This young woman was sitting on a bench outside of a restaurant when I was down visiting the girls in May and kindly let me take her photo. I love the glasses and her demure manner.