Collection of Roses paintings, each 6x6 inch (15x15 cm), watercolor on paper
copyright: Doris Joa

I painted more and more roses in the past time. Here I am displaying some of them. Each is 6"x6" (15x15 cm) and each is painted on 140 Lb hotpressed paper.

All are sold, but some are still currently running on ebay. If you want to have a look please click here.  My starting price is $19.95 and shipping is $8 worldwide. I do combine shipping for up to 6 or 7 small original paintings or prints.

It looks great to see the Roses displayed together and it makes absolutely much fun to create them.

Her Moment in the sun, watercolor, 20x28 inch (50x70 cm)
copyright: Doris Joa

And here is my newest figurative painting of a young girl/woman standing on a bridge and enjoying the moment in the sun. It is painted on 140 Lb coldpressed watercolor paper, stretched over stretcher bars, size is 20"x28" (50x70 cm).

I am wishing you all a very Happy New Year. May it be blessed with health, joy, peace, luck, enough money, success in your career and all what you wish.

I want also to say "Thank you"  for your support in 2009.

There is a new figurative painting to show

I already have my first painting of a young child sitting at a river completed in 2010. It is painted on Aquabord in watercolor, size is 11x14".

This little girl with her pink dress and pink shoes sits at a river and she got wet feet.

For our Christmas exchange with some artists friends on Artcolony I painted our black cat "Timmi". The reference photo of Timmi was done some days before we lost him. It was the first time that I painted him. This painting went to Kay in USA and she told me that she loves the painting very much. So my surprise for her was perfect.

The painting is around 9x12 and painted in watercolor on Reeves Watercolor Board.

I also finished finally my figurative painting of "Ines". It is also watercolor, painted on Fabriano Watercolor paper, size is: 12x24".

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The  small woman head study was painted on 340 Lb coldpressed paper. I just wanted to try how this paper works. I painted already some flowers on this paper, but I really wanted to figure out how it works for faces and hair. It works - but I think it is not really my favorite. The surface is really rough and the colour is not so easy to lift as working on a smoother surface. I think I have better control when working on other surfaces. Size is 6x6 inch.

This black cat was painted on 140 Lb coldpressed paper.  Size is 5x7 inch.

After all the kittens I needed to do some other faces. At first you will see a young girl with blonde hair and the second one is another beautiful girl with brown hair in a white dress.

The portrait is finished and is painted on coldpressed Arches watercolor paper. I love the blonde hair in sunlight. No masking fluid was used in both paintings.

The figurative painting is mostly finished.

I must check the hands and feet and may also add some colours here and there, maybe I also need to soften some edges, but mostly it is finished. The background will be as it is now. The girl is so present that nothing more is needed in this painting.

Here is a close up:

Size is 12x24, painted on Fabriano coldpressed watercolor paper.

I finally finished this figurative painting. I have spent so much time on it that I really need some distance to it. I am not sure at this time if I am pleased or not - but this are always the doubts when I finish something.

Watercolor, 20x28 inch on 140 Lb hotpressed paper

As I mentioned in my previous post I am just working on a new figurative painting. It is around 19x28 inch and a big challenge for me. I thought you may enjoy to see this WIP - so here is it.

I am so behind with posting on my blog - I am sorry.

I was on vacations with my family - a wonderful time and wonderful to see the Ocean again. Of course I did a lot of photos and hope some of them will turn into some new paintings.

This painting is my newest. It is almost finished - just a little bit of colour on the hand is needed and then I need to check it for the edges - it is better to have some distance to it for a while and then I will see if there is anything which I do not like.

Romance Novel - watercolor - size: around 16x22 inch

I haven't posted for a while here and this is also just a short note to show what I am doing right now.

Here is a WIP of a girl in watercolor. It is a very early stage, but I thought that you are maybe interested in seeing this. I am working very carefully to build up the layers.

And a Pink Peony in Progress. There is also a lot to do with all the many petals, but I enjoy it. For the pinks I used my favorite colour Permanent Rose. To make it stronger I added some Alizarin Crimson and for the cool areas I added some Phthalo Blue.

"Has the Rain stopped?"
watercolor, 6"x16"

And here is another watercolor painting. I am not really happy with it.  Her hand is a bit too long, but since I have worked so often on this area, I will stop now and not touch it again. It is okay, but another lesson learnt!

I am very happy with the reflections and also with the wet street.

This is the finished portrait of the beautiful young girl. I still had to do the necklace and also some colours on her body - that was it.

I am very pleased with this painting, it is excactly what I wanted to acchieve. Her mother was very impressed about the painting and the girl itself loves it, too! What can I ask for more?

I am also working on my Roses painting. I have worked more on the leaves and also on the roses and the whole look of the painting will change again when I add more of the background at the top and when the roses are finished. That is always an exciting moment to see the painting developing.

I am pleased with the painting as it is - but I am not so really happy. I wanted to have the leaves more light and yellow to create more warmth and sunshine there.  So I tried to wash the colours out but it was not possible. It looks good as it is but I am more angry about myself that I was not carefully enough. Another lesson learned. But I will go on and see how the painting develops and I hope it will be that what I am looking for with this Roses.

Deutsch: Das ist das fertige Portrait von dem jungen hübschen Mädchen. Zu malen hatte ich lediglich die Halskette und noch einige Hauttöne auf ihrem Körper. Das war alles.

Ich bin sehr zufrieden mit diesem Bild, es ist genau das was ich wollte. Die Mutter war sehr beeindruckt über das Bild und auch das Mädchen mag das Bild sehr. Was will ich mehr?

Des weiteren habe ich an meinem Rosenbild gearbeitet. Ich arbeitete mehr an den Blättern und auch an den Rosen und der ganze Look des Bildes wird sich wieder ändern, wenn ich mehr Hintergrund hinzugefügt habe und auch wenn die Rosen fertig sind. Diesen Moment finde ich immer sehr aufregend, wenn man sieht, wie sich ein Bild entwickelt.

Ich bin zufrieden mit dem Bild, so wie es bis jetzt ist - aber nicht so richtig glücklich. Ich wollte die Blätter eigentlich heller und mehr gelb haben, um mehr Wärme und Sonnenschein zu suggerieren.  Also versuchte ich die Farben wieder auszuwaschen, aber es war nicht möglich. Es sieht gut aus, so wie es jetzt ist, aber ich ärgere mich mehr über mich selber, weil ich nicht vorsichtig genug war. Wieder eine Lektion gelernt. Aber ich werde an diesem Bild weitermalen und sehen, wie es sich entwickelt und ich hoffe, es wird so sein, wie ich es mir vorstelle mit diesen Rosen.

I have done another figurative work. I am trying to find out what colours and which methods work the best for me.

In this painting and also on the girl painting posted before I used mainly Raw Sienna, Scarlet Lake and Winsor Blue (green shade). Of course other colours are also in the figures, the colours of the clothes and so on.

I am doing another one at this time and trying out how it will be to work with some cadmiums on the palette. So far I like the result and will post something very soon here.