Watercolors
Welcome to my playground!
Summary
Digital art and design can be beautiful and meaningful. It has become a staple of our modern world. But sometimes us designers just want to get our hands dirty, turn off the screens, and just make something for the sake of creation.
Watercolor has influenced my creative style since high school and I'm proud to say I never left it behind. It's the little things that splash joy into our lives. So take a breather, scroll through some of my paintings, and enjoy!
Fairy Door Peekaboo Scenes
Watercolor, pen and ink
Make no mistake, I did NOT create the doors themselves. That honor goes to Rochester creator Blue Toucan Studios. I did, however, create the scenes inside.
One of my ongoing personal projects are filling each of my fairy doors with a little scene, as if we were peeking in on the land of the fairies. The four above scenes are the only completed so far, but I'll surely add more as time goes on.
The materials used for each piece are pen and ink, with 100% watercolor to color the image. Each scene had a graphite base drawing, created by yours truly.
Sunset Landscape
Watercolor, ink
I made this beautiful piece in 2020, when covid locked us all down and it seemed we might no longer be able to visit the lake my husband grew up camping next to.
I'd taken this picture the year before, during a particularly beautiful sunset. The trees in the foreground are inked in, and the scene in the back is entirely watercolor.
Artisano's Café
Watercolor, classical dipped ink
This painting is a true to life painting of Artisano's Café on the RIT campus. It was sketched, inked, and painted right there outside of the café.
It was difficult capturing all of the intricate little details of the location, and it became a balancing act of choosing between important details and textures, versus capturing the spirit of the location and not overworking the piece. At least I had the added benefit of the light not changing as I captured the scene.
In the end it turned out fantastically and it's still one of my favorite works!