Fearless Friday, Red Wine
Here we are, half way through World Watercolor Month!
I am ashamed to tell you that I have missed 4
out of the first 15 days 😵
BUT that’s what’s great about this challenge,
join in when you can, no pressure!
Beach “time”
I did take some time one day to find inspiration photos
to use for the remaining July prompts
To me, the hardest part of the challenge
is deciding what to paint
so having already made those decisions
really saves time
“Strong”
Today we’re going to pour a glass of wine
Below is my inspiration photo
I was drawn to the dramatic contrasts and the
“strong” bold colors
I started with a pencil sketch
Then I began by making borders around the areas
I wanted to leave white highlights
{You can also use liquid masking fluid to preserve these areas}
Next I painted the bottle in various shades of green,
and the wine in shades of red
I was having so much fun,
I got distracted and forgot to take more photos…
I added gold shadows to the wine glass and added a stem
Then I realized that it looks like the wine
was pouring outside of the glass
because I painted over the rim
I added 2 short lines with ochre gouache paint
over the red to capture the rim again
and show the wine pouring into the glass
“Red Wine” 6″ x 9″ watercolor on mixed media paper
Right now I’m using Mofuny Mixed Media spiral bound books
from Amazon here
They have a hard cover and the size is great for single works
or putting several works on a page
They can be used with wet or dry media
and are currently bargain priced, in my opinion,
2 9″ x 12″ 60 page books for $18.99
Happy Creating,
Be Fearless!
I will be joining these fabulous parties and blogs:
Sundays on Silverado/ Love Your Creativity
What’s for Dinner/ Between Naps on the Porch
All About Home/ Common Ground & Follow the Yellow Brick Home
Oh My Heartsie Girl / Turn About Tuesday
Karin’s Cottage Linky Party / Creative Crafts / Crafty Creators
Full Plate Thursday/ Creatively Crafty/ Thursday Favorite Things
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Jenna, I know having a challenge and a deadline really to spur me on stir my creativity. Love how you were able to replace the rim after the fact! Happy Friday, cheers! 🍷
Thanks Mary, Happy Weekend!
My favorite is the child at the beach!
Thanks Dorothy 🏖
I often need a challenge and a deadline, Jenna. I enjoy seeing your creativity on Fearless Friday. Amazing how adding the rim back really made a difference. Happy Friday to you!
Thank you Pam, it is amazing how one little stroke or two can make a big difference!
The strong bold coloured one looks great, but the little boy playing at the beach is my favourite, Jenna.
Thanks Angie 🙂
What a contrast with and without the rim. Amazingly beautiful as always. Happy Friday!
Thank you Emily, Happy Weekend!
WOW! Absolutely beautiful Jenna. GIRL….you amaze me with your talent. Hugs and blessings, Cindy
Thanks so much Cindy, have a great weekend!
Your paintings are so very agreeable with me! The Beach ‘time’ painting is very, very precious!
Thanks, it’s hard to resist a sweet child playing in the sand 🙂
My goodness, you are SO talented!! Thank you for including the pencil sketch. If I can figure out how to draw something, I can usually paint it (or add a bunch of jewelry-ha.) Beautiful work!! Love the beach one, too!
Thanks Jessica, you can always trace a photo too and transfer it to another paper or canvas to paint
Awesome! Thank you!
I’ll be remembering your lovely watercolor as I enjoy a glass of red wine with my steak tonight. Have a great weekend!
Cheers Linda!
This is beautiful, Jenna. The gold shadows on the wine glass are especially perfect. I love the leaving white for reflections too — I sometimes forget to do this and have to haul out my bleedproof white, which is OK — but not as good as leaving it. And your beachy child — darling!
Thanks so much Jeanie, happy painting!
Nice fix! And that fix was needed.
Love your Fearless Fridays!
Thanks so much Nancy!
I really do always love your watercolors and of course red wine is my favorite! I enjoy hearing about how you painted it too. I wish I could paint, but the talent is just not there.
Thank you! You seem to have such an interest in painting, you should take a class, you might surprise yourself!
You had me at “wine.”🍷
ha ha!
Beautiful Jenna and great fix too! I didn’t notice it right away until you said something and then I saw it. Love your creativity and glad that you are having fun doing it!
Thanks so much Kim, the pouring wine was a lot of fun 🍷 🙂