This watercolor portrait is my newest painting.  It is painted on Textured Claybord.

"Angelina"
Watercolor on Textured Claybord
size: 11"x14"

In one of my previous posts I mentioned that I am hosting a new challenge at Susan Harrison-Tustain's Artist Forum.

This Challenge is/was a Watercolor Rose Study. I am happy now to tell you that my Rose painting is finished and I am more happy that so many artists joined the challenge. Some are still working on their roses and I hope they find my teaching how I do a rose helpful.

This is my finished Rose painting.

Rose Ghislaine de Féligonde
medium: watercolor on 140 Lb hotpressed paper
size: 8x8 inch - 20x20 cm
© Doris Joa

If you want to try doing a rose by yourself so I encourage you to visit this challenge. I posted the drawing, the ref.pics. and explained my steps how I am working. On this forum are other helpful challenges and tips.

While you are there please visit also Susan Harrison-Tustain's Website. It is completely new and WOW! what a source for artists. Please visit the Artist's Site to find helpful FREE articles, Video Clips of her Watercolor DVDs, Publications for download in many many magazines and also her Blog. Enjoy your tour through her website and do not forget to visit her Gallery of Oil and Watercolor Paintings on the Fine Art Site and take a sneak preview into her new exhibition paintings.

On my Rose Painting I tried some new brushes. I will tell you more in my next post.

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?

Today I can show two new Pink Rose Paintings. Both are painted in watercolor and size of each watercolor painting is 6x6 inch.

I am also happy to tell you that I am a guest artist at SusanArt Forum, where I am just hosting a Rose Challenge. It is a free Demo and I am providing the Ref.pics, the drawing and explaing my steps about how I paint a rose. Everyone is invited to join this Challenge.

Please click here to visit the SusanArt Forum - a wonderful forum created from Susan Harrison-Tustain

I was very surprised to get a message from Alex Zonis, who gave me a blog award - the Sunshine Blog Award.

Thank you very much Alex and I feel very honored.

I have to follow the Award rules and must nominate 12 bloggers. That is an easy job, because I would like to nominate my friends on the Artcolony blog. I am happy to be a part of this Artcolony blog, because there are some wonderful artists which has become friends to me. This are more than 12, but each of them deserve the award, if this is Jane Freeman, Cindy Agan, Diane Morgan, Mollie Jones, Mary Jansen, Nita Bridges-Hoyt, Emily Johnson, Carol Chretien, Kay Smith, Debbie Cannatella, Verena Heroux, Ruth Steinfatt, Elinor Sethman, Pat Hart, Kaaren Oreck, Christiane Fortin, Chris Beck and Michelle Himes. They all deserve this Sunshine Blog award, because they always like to share all they know about painting, they are very helpful and an inspiration. I only wish my special friend from the other side of the world - Susan Harrison-Tustain -  would have a blog, because she also deserves this Blog award. Her paintings are full of magic and she also always loves to share her knowledge about painting.

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.

I finished my Pink Peony Painting in watercolor. Or should I say better Magenta. The colour is so strong, that maybe Magenta or red would fit better. Size is 12"x12" and it is painted on stretched watercolor canvas.
Price: $130 plus $10 shipping (airmail and insurance)

I am currently working on my website. In the right sidebar you will see now a new link to available Original paintings and there will also come a link to available  fine art prints. I want to have the possibility for my customers to buy directly from my website instead of opening an account on Etsy.

The page is still under construction. Only some links on a few images are working yet.

Deutsch: Meine rosa-magenta farbenes Pfingstrosengemälde in Aquarell ist fertiggestellt. Größe ist 30cm x 30cm und gemalt ist sie auf Papier auf gespanntem Keilrahmen.

Zur Zeit arbeite ich an meiner Webseite. In der rechten Leiste finden Sie nun einen Link für noch erhältliche Originalbilder und es wird noch ein Link für Drucke folgen. Ich möchte meinen Clienten die Möglichkeit geben, direkt von meiner Webseite zu kaufen, anstatt sich erst auf Etsy ein Konto zu eröffnen.

Die Seiten sind noch in Bearbeitung. Nur einige wenige Links funktionieren bis jetzt.

I am working on a deep pink or better magenta peony in watercolor, which just grows in my neighbours garden. I thought I could have finished it already but I got so busy with doing our Tax. I am very late this year with the Tax and now it is highest time to clear my desk from all these boring things. So I will finish the Tax today and I hope there is still time enough for my Peony.

I really love the colour of this Peony. It is so strong and deep. For the cool pinks I used Brillant purple from Schmincke. I really love this colour. For the warmer areas I mixed this Brillant purple with Alizarin Crimson (also from Schmincke) which makes really a strong colours. And for the shadow areas I added a touch of green (Phthalo Green or Sap Green works perfect). This mix makes a really beautiful dark shadow.

I am thinking now about the background. Since the Peony is so strong I think I will go with a light background, perhaps in the way as I did on my Red Rose in my previous post.

Do you know Moo.com? Some days ago R. Garriot made some posts in his blog about business cards and where to get good quality for a good price. And Kim Denise told about her business cards which she got from Moo! It is a European printer.

I visited the site from Moo and I am amazed about that what they are offering. One great thing is that you can have printed multiple images in a single order. And beside the usual size for a business card they offer MiniCards. This size is really cute, just 28 mm x 70 mm and you can get 100 cards from 13.79€ plus shipping.

I only have a small rest of my old business cards and I need new ones. And I can't wait to get started and try Moo out. My previous business cards were made at psprint.com and also at Vistaprint.com. I liked the Vistaprint cards the best because the colours were right, the colours in the cards which I got from psprint.com were wrong and I didn't like that. When I get my cards from Moo I will tell you about them.

I have finally set up a side at facebook. Wow, I am amazed about the possibilities there and how easy it is to connect with your friends.

If you want to join me there please click on the image below. Hope to see you there.

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Deutsch: Ich arbeite zur Zeit an einer dunkelrosa - magenta Pfingstrose in Aquarell, welche zur Zeit in Nachbars Garten wächst. Ich wollte sie eigentlich schon vor einigen Tagen fertigstellen, aber dann musste ich die Steuer machen und das hält natürlich auf. Ich bin sehr spät mit unserer Steuer dieses Jahr aber es ist höchste Zeit meinen Schreibtisch von diesen langweiligen Dingen zu befreien. So werde ich heute als erstes die Steuer fertig machen und dann hoffe ich, dass genügend Zeit übrig bleibt, um diese Pfingstrose fertig zu malen.

Die Farben von dieser Pfingstrose sind einfach toll.  Für das "kalte" Pink benutzte ich Brillant Purple von  Schmincke. Ich mag diese Farbe. Für die wärmeren Bereiche mischte ich dieses Brillant Purple mit Alizarin Crimson (auch von Schmincke) . Beides zusammen ergibt wirklich eine starke Farbe. Und um die Schatten darzustellen fügte ich zu diesem Mix ein Touch grün bei  (Phthalo Green oder Sap Green sind beide perfekt). Diese Mischung ergibt wirklich eine schöne dunkle Schattenfarbe.

Nun denke ich über den Hintergrund nach. Da die Pfingstrose schon so stark in ihren Farben ist wird ein hellerer Hintergrund das Beste sein, vielleicht in der Art und Weise wie ich ihn in meiner Roten Rose gemalt habe ( siehe meinen vorhergehenden Eintrag).

Kennen Sie Moo.com? Vor einigen Tagen machte R. Garriot in seinem blog einige Einträge über Visitenkarten und wo man gute Qualität für einen guten Preis bekommen kann. Und Kim Denise erzählte über ihre Visitenkarten, welche sie bei  Moo! machen ließ. Moo ist ein europäischer Drucker mit Sitz in England.

I habe die Website von Moo besucht und ich mag was sie anbieten. Eine tolle Sache ist, dass Sie verschiedene Bilder in einer Einzelbestellung auf ihren Visitenkarten gedruckt haben können. Neben der üblichen Größe für Visitenkarten bieten sie auch  MiniCards an.  Diese Größe ist wirklich niedlich, gerade mal 28 mm x 70 mm und man bekommt 100 Karten ab 13.79€ plus Versand.

Ich habe nur noch einen kleinen Rest meiner alten Visitenkarten und ich brauche neue. Ich kann es kaum erwarten,  Moo auszuprobieren. Meine alten Visitenkarten wurden gedruckt von psprint.com und auch von Vistaprint.com. Die Karten von Vistaprint mochte ich besser, die Farben waren richtig. Die Farben in den Karten von  psprint.com waren falsch und sie gefielen mir nicht sonderlich. Wenn ich Karten von Moo habe, werde ich Ihnen berichten.

Ich habe endlich eine Seite auf  facebook. Wow, ich bin überwältigt über die Möglichkeiten dort und wie man mit seinen Freunden in Kontakt bleiben kann.

Bitte klicken Sie auf das Bild von Facebook (auch in der rechten Sidebar vorhanden), um sich meinem Freundeskreis anzuschließen. Ich hoffe, ich sehe Sie dort.

Originally I was working on a white Peony painting. I painted it on Reeves watercolor board and needed to do a lot of washes in the background, because I wanted to have him very dark. But the board buckled and the washes looked terrible. I also was not happy with the leave work so I decided to throw the almost finished painting away. Instead I did this small red Rose painting in size 5"x7".

Deutsch: Ursprünglich arbeitete ich an einer weißen Pfingstrose. Ich malte sie auf Reeves Watercolor board und musste für den Hintergrund eine Reihe von Farbschichten auftragen, weil ich ihn sehr dunkel haben wollte. Aber das Board wellte sich und der Hintergrund sah schrecklich aus. Auch war ich nicht so richtig glücklich mit den Blättern. Also warf ich kurzerhand das fast fertige Bild weg. Statt dessen habe ich diese kleine rote Rose gemalt in der Größe 5x7 inch.