#13 View From My Hammock TMC

Today I lay in my hammock in the back yard and looked out over the fence and liked the view.

I wondered if I could paint it.

 The top is the end result. The bottom is the drawing and watercolor painted picture done in 20 minutes for the Twenty Minute Challenge. I've been trying to paint almost daily since joining this group. This is my 13th painting in that challenge.

When the 20 minutes were up

I felt I need to see more so I used a bold black marking pen and outlined my painting and got

the top photo that I think you will agree really makes the picture pop right off the page.

(click on photos to enlarge)

This is a technique I learned in a 4 hr workshop I took last year from David Peterson of Sacramento, CA. It's the style he uses.

Being just a tad less than humble I'll remind you that in our recent Juried Art Show this summer,

David won first prize in the watercolor division and

I won second.

(It was only my 6th ever watercolor at the time)

;-)

Yep, color me proud.

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If you missed my late posting yesterday

you may want to scroll down and visit the link to

a most incredible video of a bird caring for it's young.

I called it the Empty Nest Syndrome.