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.

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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.

Today I have started with a new Rose painting.

Yes, I know, the figurative painting isn't finished yet, but I couldn't resist. 

I have done some Step-by-Step-Photos, so you can easily follow this work in progress. At first you will see the Drawing and then you are getting an idea about how I build up my layers.

My colours in this painting are: Indian Yellow, Aureolin yellow, Alizarin Crimson, Translucent Orange, Permanent Rose, Phthalo Blue and Phthalo Green.

It is wonderful to see the Rose developing and I know the look will completely change when I start with the background. I will go with a dark background, which would make the Rose pop.

The painting has the size 12x16 inch on stretched watercolor canvas.

In my previous post I was asked by Krista, whether I am stretching the paper by myself or whether I am buying it pre-stretched. Here in Germany pre-stretched watercolor canvas are not available. So I was happy when Joyce Faulknor taught on her blog how she stretches her paper. I tried it and it is so easy to do. I have tried it with hotpressed and also coldpressed paper. It works perfect. You should try it.

Click on the images to enlarge them.

I am still working on my large figurative painting - I hope it will be finished in the next days. But I really needed a break from this and so I did some Rose paintings. The Red and Yellow Rose are small ones, 6x6 inch. The Orange Rose is in the size 6x16 inch. All three are done in watercolor and painted on stretched watercolor canvas.

I hope you like them.

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.

As I promised here is a new step of my current Roses painting.

I have started with some leaves to get a better feeling for the roses. The roses are looking so different on the white paper and to have them  surrounded with the leaves makes it easier to go on. And it is better to see how the colours work on them.

The colours on the leaves and stems were created with some indian yellow, aureolin, burnt sienna, sap green and helio turquoise. This is only the beginning. I may not forget to add also some of the roses colour (permanent rose and alizarin crimson mixed with phthalo blue) to the leaves.

I will show the next step very soon.

I am sorry,  the photo of the girl in watercolor which I posted yesterday was very bad, so here is also a better one.

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Deutsch: Wie ich versprochen habe zeige ich hier einen weiteren Schritt meines Rosenbildes.

Begonnen habe ich nun mit einigen Blättern, um ein besseres Gefühl für die Rosen zu bekommen. Die Rosen sehen so unterschiedlich aus auf weißem Papier, aber wenn sie umgeben sind von einigen Blättern ist es einfacher fortzufahren. Man sieht dann besser, wie die Farben wirken.

Für die Farben auf den Blättern benutzte ich Indian Yellow, Aureolin, Burnt Sienna, Sap Green und Helio Turquoise. Das ist jedoch nur erst der Anfang. Ich darf nicht vergessen, auch die Farben der Rosen (Permanent Rose und Alizarin Crimson gemischt mit Phthalo Blue) zu den Blättern hinzuzufügen.

Den nächsten Schritt werde ich sehr bald zeigen.

Es tut mir leid, jedoch war das Foto von dem gemalten Mädchen in Aquarell, was ich gestern zeigte, sehr schlecht, so hier ist ein besseres.

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Today I have worked on this small portrait study. This girl is really beautiful and I wanted to capture this in my painting. It is only a small painting (around 8x10 inch) and painted with watercolors.

My colours were half opaque and half transparent and I think this works very well. In the black hair I used a mix of ivory black, burnt umber and winsor blue (green shade). For the warmer areas I added also some burnt sienna.

I plan to do a figurative painting of this young girl but wanted to get a feeling for her and for my palette, before I start.  This study was good practice for me.  When I was mostly finished I photographed the painting, loaded it in photoshop and made a black-white copy and compared it to a black-white copy of the ref.pic. This helped me enormously to see the values and where I was wrong in the face. I still need to work a bit on it then I will call it finished.

And now I must go on with my Roses and I hope to share tomorrow a new step of them.

One note: I have decided to close my Rosesblog. This doesn't mean that I will stop with painting Roses - oh no, how could I??? - but I will show all now here in this blog. This will help me to be more up to date with my postings and for my Readers it is the same.

Deutsch: Heute arbeitete ich an dieser kleinen Portrait Studie. Dieses Mädchen ist wirklich sehr hübsch und das wollte ich auch in meinem Bild einfangen. Es ist nur ein kleines Bild (ca. 20x24 cm ) and gemalt in Aquarell.

Meine Farben waren zur Hälfte deckend und zur Hälfte transparent und ich denke, damit lässt es sich gut arbeiten. Das dunkle Haar malte ich mit einer Mischung von Ivory Black, Burnt Umber und Winsor Blue (green shade). Für die wärmeren Bereich fügte ich Burnt Sienna hinzu.

Ich plane ein figuratives Gemälde mit diesem jungen Mädchen, aber ich wollte zuerst ein Gefühl für sie und auch für meine Farbpalette bekommen, bevor ich damit anfange. Diese Studie war wirklich eine gute Übung. Als ich fast fertig war fotografierte ich das Bild, lud es in Photoshop und machte eine schwarz-weiß Kopie von dem Bild und verglich es mit einer schwarz-weiß-Kopie des Referenzfotos. Das half mir enorm, die Farbtöne richtig zu sehen und auch ob ich im Gesicht was falsch gemacht hatte.  Ich muss noch ein wenig an dem Bild arbeiten, dann wird es wohl fertig sein.

Und nun zurück zu meinem Rosenbild und ich hoffe, morgen einen weiteren Fortschritt zu zeigen.

Eine kleine Notiz am Rande: Ich habe entschieden meinen Rosenblog zu schließen. Das bedeutet nicht, dass ich aufhören werde, Rosen zu malen - wie  könnte ich??? - aber ich werde künftig alles nur hier in diesem Blog zeigen. Das wird mir helfen, aktueller mit meinen Einträgen zu sein.

No title yet - watercolor, size 16"x16"
copyright:  Doris Joa

For those who don't know my Rosesblog I want to show you one of my newest Rose paintings. It is a bit different than usual (especially in the background) and I really enjoyed working on it. It is painted on paper on stretcher bars, to read more about this Method please go to my Rosesblog by clicking here.

Some other News:

I have sent one of my Rose paintings to the Society of Botanical Artists in UK. And I am happy that it was selected for the Society of Botanical Artists Exhibition. This prestigious exhibition takes place at Westminster Central Hall, London from April 24th to May 3rd. I was not sure if this Rose painting would make it in, because it is no really botanical work. But I am happy that it is IN. Here is the painting:

Rose Ghislaine de Féligonde - watercolor, size: 12"x16"
copyright: Doris Joa

By the way: This painting is one of the full Step-by-Step-Demonstrations in my E-book.

Some of my work was published in the Porch Magazine. The editors thought that my work would have the romantic feel for which they were looking for their Valentine's Issue.
I already have one copy of this Issue and I am very pleased with the quality of this Magazine and I am very thrilled that they are showing 6 of my paintings.

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.