This is a watercolor painting I’ve been working on this past winter. It is entitled April. I painted it from photographs I took last spring of my Rhododendron shrub. As luck would have it, I found a great 3-layer white wooden frame that sets it off perfectly.
April
The following image is one of the commissioned watercolor paintings I’ve been working on this winter. It’s entitled Great Blue and I loved painting it. It’s rare that a painting turns out exactly as you envisioned it in your mind, so when it does… it’s a great thing!
Great Blue
Starting today, I have three watercolor paintings on display at the NBT Bank in Clifton Park (Hannaford Plaza). My paintings will be on display through April 30th.
Diverging from my usual closeups, I created this landscape watercolor painting with as few layers of paint as possible, instead of my usual multiple layers of paint. Thurman Pond is a beautiful, peaceful body of water in the Adirondacks, that I was lucky enough to vacation at this past summer.
Thurman Pond
This pencil painting that I just completed is entitled Lilac Wine. It’s based on a photograph that I took of the Lilac Wine Iris in my garden.
Lilac Wine
In September of 2012, I took a colored pencil class with Cynthia Knox. The butterfly pencil painting is what I did in her class and gave to my daughter for her birthday. The technique is to use very tiny circular pencil strokes and create layer upon layer of color, along with burnishing between layers. It is extremely time consuming, but the end results look like an oil painting. The Dragonfly, that I did for my son, is a mixed media painting done with watercolor, colored pencil and ink.
This is a painting I just did for some of my kayaking buddies. The painting is based on a photo of our kayaks on the shore of the Hudson River, up in Lake Luzerne, NY.
Kayaks Along the Hudson
Starting today, I have four watercolor paintings on display at the Trustco Bank in Halfmoon, NY (215 Guideboard Road). The paintings will be on display through the month of December.
This watercolor painting entitled Early Autumn just won 3rd place in the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Juried Show of Art & Photography. This painting will be on display at the library (475 Moe Road, Clifton Park, NY) for the rest of the month until November 30th.
Early Autumn
My love of kayaking has inspired me to create many watercolor paintings to express the tranquility and beauty I see on the water. Working from photographs, I paint layer upon layer of transparent watercolor paint to create the vivid colors in the paintings. As you can see, I fell in love with lily pads and consider these to be some of my best work.
Cindi Handy 