From the Dark Aisle

Hello, all, I'm still alive. Here is a painting I did recently, en plein air from the Dark Aisle gardens at the Lorenzo Mansion, Cazenovia, NY, on the list of historic buildings. 

I'm feeling better after the fibromyalgia and arthritis flares of the winter. More soon, I hope. 

Having a workshop with Nita Leland soon. Can't wait.

february and groundhogs

This is me last summer, recovering from two total knee and one total shoulder replacements over 10 months. That's why i have not posted much new. I would love to ask my followers to send me painting ideas. Kick me out of my chair. And then I'll post some I've done. Thanks.

It's just February and the snow's three feet deep here. It would be over my I head where I was sitting. Maybe seasonal is what to paint. Glaze a little. Let it be. Written by a watercolor junkie.

Happy New Year with lightning

Happy New Year. I have been having surgery again, but I'm back. Look for my newly redone website soon at marthakeimstlouis.com

Fire dance

Hello and I'm still here. This one one of my newest paintings. Last winter I had both my knees replaced and last month I had cataracts removed. Now I get around better ands can see with new eyes! Hooray for learning the rules of watercolor and hooray for throwing them out. Fire dance is a quartersheet watercolor and is no longer available.

Peterboro Hil

Here's a view from the hills I live in. Upstate New York is so beautiful in summer, with knock-you-out color. This is a half-sheet (15 x 22) watercolor on paper and is $325. It'll be up for exhibit this weekend in the Dark Aisle Exhibit, Cazenovia, NY on the grounds of historic Lorenzo Mansion.

Coffee and ...

HI, this is a watercolor and ink over a monoprint I pulled from my palette. I just looked down at it and said, "You oughta be in pictures." The painting is about 10 x 14. And it's SOLD! hooray.

Help! Which way's north?

Hi all, this was a monoprint which just screamed "lost goose" at me. It's a watercolor monoprint from my palette with grease pencil (actually eyeliner that itched) and ink. postcard on arches paper. Preprinted address place on back. Twenty bucks. I'll bill you via PayPal.

strawberry day

HI, all...new kitten in my family so I haven't posted in a week. Last night, he managed to walk through a different color on each paw, and then over my table and me. Thanks be he didn't walk on the painting I was working on. Anyway, this little postcard I did during a demo at an opening for my local watercolor group. $75 unframed/

Barn day

Today was bright and beautiful, so much so that I was riveted to my patio seat and painted this little postcard of my barn. It's watercolor on Richeson paper and yours for twenty ($20) bucks, including shipping. The back is printed with places for address and postage. Email me through my blog and I'll bill via PayPal. Thanks.

Hill Dance

This watercolor is a half sheet (15" x 22") that was accepted into several juried shows last year. I'm asking $300 for it unframed. Buy it through PayPal so your money and my money are safe. You don't need a PayPal account, even!

Autumn in April?

This is a watercolor pouring and ink experiment I did this weekend. I just dripped, tipped, poured and waited until I saw the scene for my ink. Critiques welcome.

By the way, all; weird weather, huh? We're snowing all day for two days. I thought I was done with snow scenes for the year. Never know.

Martha

Watercolor for the weekend

This is a little watercolor I did behind the steering wheel of my car. Zan (http://artezan.blogspot.com/) inspired me to paint in my lap again. And I like this one: Peterboro hill in Madison County, NY. This is not the best photo but I'll try again tomorrow.

27 march 07

This is the only watercolor portrait of a baby I've done. It was a present for one of my oldest friends on the birth of her first grandkid. I used only transparent, single pigment paints for this. I think they were aureolin, cobalt and permanent rose. I've been using Nita's palettes with my Quiller wheel and his books too, probably for a few years now. Jeanne Dobie is also wonderful. And Charles Reid is an idol.

I stayed away from opaques for the first few years I went back to watercolor (after a 35-year block -- another story) because I kept getting mud and didn't know why. So I went to transparents and pretty much stayed there. Now I am trying a few opaques -- with wildly varying results.

Hatch Lake, NY

Hi, here's another watercolor I liked doing. This one's about 22 x 7. I painted it -- in watercolor -- after sunset one evening in late fall, when this scene nailed me right between the eyes. I had to go right home and paint it before I lost it.

This is me: it's white, not blonde. I just visited Hilton Head Island and came back with a head full of colors for paintings, and some little watercolor sketches...