Earlier this week, I completed this iris painting -- "Royal Purple II" -- using a photo I'd taken several years ago in my backyard garden. I've painted this subject before, but never was satisfied with the outcome.
Here are a few photographs I took during a two-day watercolor workshop offered here in Worcester MA and organized through the painting studio of Jo Ellen Reinhardt.
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| Always mix PLENTY of color! |
Our workshop instructor each day was Robert J. O'Brien. He did an absolutely stunning job, encouraging us through demonstration, one-on-one advice, and generally being a supportive and positive influence. I'm fairly certain that almost everyone participating left each day-long workshop with a sense of having learned a lot and having made some great new acquaintances. Quite a few of us hope to see Robert at a return-visit workshop sometime during 2014.
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| Robert demonstrating how to paint birches in a winter landscape. |
