This painting is 12 1/8 x 16 1/8....and I am very pleased for it. I decided who it belonged to as I painted it...unless they hate it then I will get back to the drawing board. This one came out exactly as I wanted it to.

The bottom layer (blue) is watercolor while the black and white is all gouache over top of that. There are other watercolor highlights as well.

OK so I need to stop with the gouaches for awhile. They take longer for me! But here are three I have been working on. The one on the left is 7 x 10 1/4. It is another bright sky with darkness creeping in.  There are subtle color highlights you cannot realllly see here.

The painting on the right below is one I pictured earlier in its earliest stages! Now it is in its middle stages and still needs some work. I need to "remove" some detail I think. When I was finishing up last night I thought I had RUINED it. But it isn't ruined. Just needs some work! Both of these are a hair bigger than 12 x 16 inches.

The one on the left is a new effort at duplicating the feel of the original piece (check post below this one). It didn't but is looking decent.

I am going to put these aside and work on some very bright watercolors based on Colorado skies tonight.

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These are two gouaches I did early on in the painting process. I decided, at length, that I sort of liked these two (there are three photos but two are of the same pieces.

These are much more vibrant than the watercolors and also more "cartoony" for lack of a better way of putting it. I did some other gouaches that are a little duller and some others still where I did gouache over watercolor.

I am debating posting them as I am not sure how I feel about them.

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I am not totally convinced I don't like these I suppose but they just didn't really turn out as I intended. All but one of them are 6x4. the one below on the far left is 7 x 10 1/4.

What is the problem? In the above painting, which sort of looks ok abstractly I just didn't get it to look how I wanted. I was trying to put gouache over watercolor.

I sort of like the two on the bottom to the left. The larger one is sort of ok...the one in the middle is black and white...the one on the far left just doesn't work. I was trying to blend in colors and over the black it just isn't right.

But..live and learn!

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