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".

If you are searching for some special art please keep in mind that I do take commissions. Since all other commissions for Christmas are completed I am having free time to take new commissions, if this is for a Rose or Flower painting, a portrait or a pet portrait or whatever you want. Please contact me without any obligations using my contact form here.

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.

This is my newest figurative painting:  "Reflections"

I loved the Reflections of the girl at the beach which were the reason to paint it.

It is watercolor, size around 16x22 inch, on 140 Lb coldpressed paper.

This is my latest Figurative Painting. I have started with this painting four times and I was not happy. This is my latest attempt and I am finally happy with it.
Transparent Watercolor, Painted on 140 Lb coldpressed watercolor paper, size: 16"x22"

On my Rosesblog I posted a new Rose painting.

This is my newest watercolor painting of a young girl at the beach.
I have no idea which title I could use for this painting. I still remember when my kids saw the first time the ocean. It is like "Wonders of Nature" and since we do not live at the ocean I still feel the same when we visit the ocean in our vacation time. I am always impressed - deep impressed -.

I have done this painting on Textured Claybord (Aquabord) and size is 11"x14". I loved to describe the water, the waves, the reflections and the sand. It really made fun to do this painting.

For some reasons I love this Aquabord but there are also times when I hate it and there were many times when I could have thrown this painting away. It is not easy to work in layers on this surface, it is so easy to disturb the underlayers and especially when painting skins that can look awful. I am pleased with the look now and I will not touch the painting again. Each time when I tried to add another layer on the skin I always removed the underlayers and then I had to do the whole area again.

On the other side it was so easy to work with the water and the waves and the sand, because here I LOVED it very much that I could remove the paint and to get the white back. For this the surface was wonderful.