Exciting News again!

My pink tulip painting  in watercolor "Frühlingsboten" (Signs of Spring) is published in the french art magazine "Pratique des Arts". This magazine is similar to the US Artists Magazine and full of info. Although I speak only a few french words  it is wonderful to look through this magazine and to see all the wonderful art displayed.

Enjoying a cup of tea and reading through the magazine. What can make more fun?

They made an article about flower artists of the world and I feel very honored that they included my work. I was excited to see that my painting was not only displayed on Page 10, they also used it in their list of contents. How cool!

Copyright: Pratique des Arts

And here you can see my pink tulip Flower Watercolor painting again:

"Frühlingsboten" - Watercolor Painting by Doris Joa

The Original is sold - but fine art prints of this tulips are available. More information are on my fine art print page.

Does this happen to you, too?

You are just leaving the room for a short moment - a really short moment - you come back and what do you find on your chair?

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).

While working on some other projects I couldn't resist to do some Rose paintings.

Here are a few. Pink Roses, white Roses and a Yellow Rose. Some are painted on 140 Lb coldpressed paper, others on hotpressed paper and others on the heavier 340 Lb coldpressed paper. I like all three surfaces.

All these paintings are listed on ebay in auction, with a starting price of $19.95. Shipping is $8, combined shipping without additional shipping costs is also possible. When you want to have a look, please click here

If you are searching for  a special rose or a special colour please just send an email.

Do you also want to have your favorite roses painted? ust send an email.

Click here to go to the auctions.

This is just a short note. If you haven't seen it yet, there is a new link Step-by-Step-Demonstrations added in the right sidebar.

There is a full detailed study of the Rose Open Arms and also two other demonstrations, one is of the Heidi Klum Rose and the other one is a beautiful floral botanical study of a pink rose.

I hope you will find these Lessons helpful. Visit the Demonstrations by clicking here.

Rose Clair Renaissance IV - 12"x16" (30x40 cm)
painted on 140 Lb hotpressed stretched watercolor canvas

In my previous post I posted some Steps of my newest Rose Painting. And I couldn't resist and wanted to finish it as I also wanted to see how it develops.

When I started the Rose painting I only wanted to add a few leaves there but then I decided to paint more and also some buds.

Here are a few step-by-step-photos. Click on the images to enlarge them.

I used the same colours as I mentioned in my previous post.

The apricot colour was achieved with at first doing a deep layer of Indian Yellow. I then added some Translucent orange and then I used a mix of Translucent Orange and Permanent Rose.

The leaves were created with Aureolin, Indian Yellow, Phthalo Blue, Alizarin Crimson, Phthalo Green and Translucent Orange. My favorite green tube is empty,  so I needed to mix the green by myself.

Pink Peony, 12"x16"
painted on stretched canvas
Price: $350 plus shipping insured
If you are interested in purchase this piece, plase visit my shop here

Today I finished my Peony Painting. Size is 12"x16" and it is painted on stretched watercolor canvas.

At first I wanted to do a lightly grey green background, but the paper buckled a bit and I got some blossoms, which I didn't want to have there, so I decided to go dark with the background. The dark background was created with Winsor green (blue shade), Burnt Sienna, Ivory Black and Alizarin Crimson in several layers.

Deutsch
Heute habe ich meine rosa Pfingstrose endlich fertig gemalt. Die Größe ist 30x40 cm und sie ist auf gespannter Aquarellleinwand gemalt.

Zuerst wollte ich einen hellen Hintergrund in einem grau-grün machen. Aber das Papier wellte sich ein bisschen an verschiedenen Stellen und ich hatte Schwierigkeiten, die Farbe gleichmäßig aufzutragen und es entstanden einige Ränder, die ich so nicht haben wollte. Daher entschied ich mich, einen dunklen Hintergrund zu machen. Für diesen benutzte ich folgende Farben:  Winsor green (blue shade), Burnt Sienna, Ivory Black and Alizarin Crimson und malte in mehreren Schichten.

It is almost a week over since I posted an update of my roses. I photographed each day a new step and wanted to post it but then I was busy with going on with the painting and so I can already show the finished painting.

For now I will call this painting finished, but since I have spent so much time on it I also need a break and will check it in a few days again, if anything still needs some work.

It is painted on 140 Lb stretched watercolor canvas with only using transparent watercolors. Size is 12"x16".

Beside that I did a small Daffodil painting on 140 Lb coldpressed paper. Size is 5"x7".

Deutsch: Es ist schon fast eine Woche her, seit ich meinen letzten Eintrag hier gemacht und ein Update von meinem Rosenbild gezeigt habe. Ich habe zwar jeden Tag jeden neuen Schritt fotografiert und wollte es auch zeigen, aber dann wollte ich unbedingt weitermalen und nun kann ich schon das fertige Rosenbild hier zeigen.

Ich denke, das Bild ist fertig, aber seit ich so viel Zeit aufgewendet habe, es zu malen, brauche ich einige Tage Pause und werde dann sehen, ob einige Bereiche noch etwas verbessert werden müssen oder nicht.

Gemalt ist es auf 300 g gespanntem Aquarellpapier (Keilrahmen) und ich habe nur transparente Aquarellfarben benutzt.

Nebenbei habe ich noch ein kleines Osterglockenbild gemalt auf 300 g kalt gepresstem Papier. Bildgröße ist 5x7 inch.

I have worked more on Roses in the past week and although I have posted them in my Rosesblog I have decided to show them also here on my mainblog.

The first one is the newest Rose painting. The colour is a bit difficult to describe. It is not really pink, not really orange, not really red, it is a mix of that, the name of  the Rose is Amelita Renaissance.

And the two white Roses are of the Rose "Weiße Weihnacht", translated to "White Christmas".

All three paintings are done on 600 g (300 Lb) coldpressed Arches Watercolor paper, unstretched, and I really had fun painting them. The painting of one of the white Roses will also be in the E-book.

On a side note: I just have upgraded this blog to a new version and so far as I can see all seems to work perfect. But if you have with something trouble, please leave a comment here or email me and I will try to fix it. Thank you.

This is another Hollyhock, painted in watercolor on hotpressed Crescent Watercolor board. Size is 5"x5".

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I am sorry. I wanted to show some photos about my newest oil painting, but unfortunately it didn't work. I had to paint all over, I was not really happy with the composition and so I have to start fresh again.
In the meantime I have just painted a small watercolor, again on Aquabord (Textured Claybord) from Ampersand.
If you have not paint on Aquabord yet, you simply should give it a try. It would be interesting to hear how you like it. It is so easy to remove paint and to get highlights back when neccessary. It is always good when we have not to worry about such things while painting and to know how we can easily fix areas.
This small painting is titled "The Pink Hat". I think it is clear why. LOL
Size is 8"x10".

For the skin tones I have used Raw Sienna, Scarlet Lake, Phthalo Blue, a bit of the hat-colour (like Alizarin Crimson, Purple Magenta).