“Summer Love”
watercolor on 640 g (300 Lb) coldpressed watercolor paper
size: 12″x16″ (30×40 cm)
© Doris Joa

This painting is done on 640 g (340 Lb) coldpressed watercolor paper from Arches. I absolutely love this paper. Most of the time I am working on the dry surface and it is also possible to work in layers to build up the richness of colours. I love this watercolor painting technique. For my portraits and figure paintings I am using different colours than I am using on my flowers and rose paintings and these colours work very well for me and so far I am very satisfied.

I am just excited to see all the new original oil and watercolor paintings painted by Susan Harrison-Tustain.

Susan has a big Exhibition this year: ‘Recollection’ and I just wish I could fly to New Zealand to see all this stunning artwork in real life. WOW she has created a fabulous collection of new paintings. A great highlight is to see the paintings in their frames!
If you want to see the wonderful collection of oil and watercolor paintings please click on the banner below.
And if you want to get more infos about each painting then visit her blog and read what inspired her to do this paintings.

My favorite paintings are ‘Liberty’ – the white pigeon, the door with the keys – how mysterious this is -, the red tulip -(here she has created a great lesson on how to paint red)  and the Stewart Island Robin. But this is just my mood today.

Yesterday my favorite paintings were the ‘Kaitiaki’ – painting, Rush Cottage and the Pisa Range Mountain painting.

I am curious which ones will be my favorite tomorrow.

Just click here and have a look by yourself – you will love this collection.

Unfortunately I needed to create a new Fanpage on Facebook and lost all my fans there.
The new page is up there now and I hope you do like me with simply clicking on the following button.

Thank you very much!

“Dreamy Afternoon”
Watercolor on stretched watercolor canvas
size: 12″x24″ (30×60 cm)
© Doris Joa

I already did this painting a year ago, but I was never really happy with it. In the first version the shadows were looking wrong to me, I always thought they’d look dirty.
That is the problem with watercolor: Once you have the wrong color it is sometimes really hard to get the right color there. In my earlier version of this painting it was not possible. I used too much blue in the shadows and I didn’t like it. It was a strong blue and I was not able to make the shadow colour better.

Still I loved the idea of this painting I decided some weeks ago that I’d do this painting again. I wanted to describe how little girls enjoy themselves, how they can get lost in their own world, here and there playing and then they are tired and they simply sleep whenever they like and just at the place where they are. We adults rarely take this time for ourselves, always busy instead of simply enjoying an hour in the sun. Of course in my painting it is a wonderful place for a little girl in her beautiful pink dress to sleep, laying in the sun, the leaves are swaying in the breeze and the cozy blanket is just so inviting, the hat is just put aside and lays in the grass – the perfect moment for a dreamy afternoon.

I love to do my watercolor paintings on watercolor canvas. Since these canvas are not available here in germany I am making now my own stretched watercolor canvas. It is really easy to do and a big pluspoint is that you can make them using your favourite watercolor paper.

I just filmed a demonstration on how I am making my own watercolor canvas. I hope it will be helpful for you.

I can’t resist to have a rose painting going on. I just enjoy to paint roses too much. Beside all other paintings a rose must be there, too! This Pink Rose is so beautiful! The pinks are created with Permanent Rose and Purple Magenta. The inner of the rose glows with yellow and orange and pink and I just love the ruffled petals.

“Old Friendship”
Watercolor Painting
painted on stretched watercolor paper (canvas)
size: 12×12 inch (30×30 cm)
© Doris Joa

Update: SOLD

Again this rose is painted on stretched canvas, no glass is needed and also no frame.

For any questions please contact me using my contact form.
Maybe my FAQ page will give you already some answers.

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Do you also love to read magazines? What is your favorite magazine? I love “Gartenträume” (Garden Dreams).

Before I discovered my art passion I was reading a lot of magazines. There was no day when I did not held any magazine in my hands.

Since I am painting I don’t find a lot of time for them. Besides my family I spend each free minute on my art and all things around my art.

But there is still one magazine which I love to read.
It is a german magazine called “Gartenträume” (translated: Gardendreams). Oh, it is a wonderful magazine, printed on high quality paper, which shows photos of gardens from around the world, beautiful close up photos of flowers and roses and gives a lot of inspiration for your own garden and home and so much more. It is a quaterly magazine, and the issues are for spring, summer, fall and winter.
“Gartenträume” is really my absolute favorite magazine.

I hope you too take time for reading a wonderful magazine, which brings you joy and inspiration.

Some weeks ago we visited the Bundesgartenschau 2011 in Koblenz (The National Garden Show Koblenz 2011). This is a very big event and this year not far away from where we live.
If you want to read more about this please click on the link below:
http://www.buga2011.de/web/en/index.php

And when you are for a visit in Germany so please take the time to visit the National Garden Show. You’ll never forget it.

While visiting this Show you are able to see a lot of flowers which you usually do not get to see and I was mainly hoping for some roses. But unfortunately it was too early for the roses to be in full bloom, many many buds already were to see, but they still were closed.

© Doris Joa

But there were fields filled with poppies in different colours and in one garden we saw amazing kinds of Rhododendrons.

© Doris Joa

Just wanted to share some pics with you. Hope you enjoy to see the Poppies and the Rhododendrons. I am just sure that some of them will make wonderful watercolor paintings. We will see!

I am happy to tell you that I am offering E-Cards on my website.

E-Cards are a great tool to stay in touch with family or friends. I have created a nice collection of roses, flowers, figures and cats. This E-Cards are safe and absolutely free and of course easy to use. Visit my E-Cards-page, choose your favorite image and fill out the form on the following page and send your card .

You do not need to sign up for anything, just use them and send your family or friends some greets.

Beside that I can tell you that I am working on a new figurative painting. It will be 20×28 inch in size (50×70 cm) and it is again a watercolor. I can already say that there will be a girl, water and  ….. (oh no – I don’t want to say more).

I just hope that my work in progress will go on as I hope.

I was very surprised to get an email from Susan Harrison-Tustain about my Rose Study. Susan the owner of the SusanArtForum told me that my Rose Demo which I did for her forum is very popular. I  did this Rose Demo a year ago and since that it had over 14.000 views, 607 replies on over 41 pages. WOW, that is really fantastic.

So many artists followed this study, used my Referencephotos and created their own paintings.

If you want to follow this study just click here.

You’ll get the Referencephoto, the drawing, the step-by-step-Demonstration and a lot of helpful tips from other artists there.

Please feel free to send me an email when you have posted your  finished Rose there and if I haven’t seen your Rose yet.

While there don’t forget to visit the other challenges. There are so many helpful tips posted in this forum for each artist no matter which medium you use.

“Lily with Butterfly”
watercolor painting
size: 20″x24″ (50×60 cm)
© Doris Joa

Here is my newest Flower Painting in watercolor. This glowing orange Daylily was growing in my garden so beautifully – I had to paint it. The Butterfly sits on the Lily and enjoys the sunshine. This Butterfly is named “Kleiner Fuchs (Aglais urticae)”, translated “Little Fox”.

The painting is painted on Watercolor Canvas. I am stretching the watercolor paper by myself over stretcher bars, so that I am having a watercolor canvas. This means, the paintings doesn’t need to be framed behind glass because the painting will be varnished. The edges are painted so no frame is needed. But it simply looks stunning framed.

Lily with Butterfly – framed

Currently I am working on a small series of new rose paintings. Each rose painting will be in size 12×12 inch and each will be painted on stretched canvas, too.

They will make a wonderful collection for each rose lover, so keep watching this space as I will post the new rose paintings here. Oh just in the moment my daughter came in and brought me the mail and I got a new Roses cataloque from Kordes Rosen. I think I will get some new roses this spring and this means more rose paintings.  Can’t wait …..