Watercolors By Andrea Burke
Painting with passion and having a blast!
  • Welcome
  • Andrea's Bio
  • Paintings by Andrea
    • Life on the Lake Series
    • Two Color Portraits
    • Florals
    • GLASS
    • Abstracts
    • Still Lifes
    • Hellebore Festival
    • Commissioned Artwork
    • South Dakota
  • Paintings For Sale
  • Andrea's Blog
  • Upcoming Shows
  • Contact

Still playing with new techniques!

11/26/2012

0 Comments

 
Picture
"You Make Me Happy When Skies Are Grey"
This is a combination of Karlyn Holman's techniques for flowers and Laurie Goldstein-Warren's technique for backgrounds!  I think it really makes the flower pop!!!  Leaves could use improvement and that will come with time.  Overall, I'm pleased with this one and encouraged to do more, as always!!!  Thanks to two AWESOME TEACHERS!!!!!

0 Comments

Brightening up the foyer

9/3/2012

0 Comments

 
Our Foyer needed a little cheering up - I found 20x20 beautiful ornate frames at Ollies - long story short, as I took them apart to remove "print" and use for one of mine, I realized I could never sell a painting in one of these frames....but if I put it on our wall, I'll never show anyone the back of it!  :-)  These are done using Karlyn Holman's style that I enjoy so much!!!
Picture
"Sunflowers Always Make Me Smile"
Picture
"Iris Spoken Here"
0 Comments

Steps to painting using Karlyn Holman's techniques

7/11/2012

0 Comments

 
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
This is such a fun style to paint.  Begin with sketch and apply masking to save the whites.  Then wet both sides of paper and work from middle out - with yellow, gold, coral, and blues.  Dry thoroughly then apply shadows.  Then the greens - then the details of the house.  Remove masking and splash in flowers.  Last step is to wet areas and shave watercolor pencils into them - voila!  My husband does not like the pinks - says they don't belong there!!!  I think they are fun!!!!
0 Comments

Work in Progress

6/2/2012

0 Comments

 
Picture
"Iris Eyes Are Smiling"
This is really wild for me - LOTS of color and lots of texture - thanks to Karlyn Holman!!!  It's a fun process and I'm going to do it on buildings next!!

0 Comments

Abstracts and Karlyn Holman

5/22/2012

0 Comments

 
Today I finally have set aside time to try underpainting some abstract designs based on teachings of Karlyn Holman!  I'm so excited - she uses tons of texture techniques and always pays attention to path of light and path of dark.  Great design lessons, for sure! 
0 Comments

Painting with Spontaneity

4/24/2012

0 Comments

 
I've been reading new material by Karlyn Holman to paint with spontaneity to see if it will loosen me up a bit!  Here is my first series of lessons - Storefronts in Shepherdstown.  What do you think???  It's soooo different from what I normally do - starting by wetting the back of the paper, then the front of the paper and then putting wet paint on top of that!  Not a lot of control, but the paints have a blast moving around!! 
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
0 Comments
    Picture

    Author

    Andrea Burke, WVWS

    RSS Feed

    Click on this if you'd like new blog posts emailed to you!

    Categories

    All
    30 Day Challenge
    30 Day Challenge #2
    Aqueous
    Art At The Mill
    Art Shows
    Blowing Off Steam
    Civil War Series
    Clarksville VA
    Composition
    Fire House Gallery And Shop
    Karlyn Holman
    Lakefest Clarksville
    Laurie Goldstein Warren
    Laurie Humble
    Lynn Ferris
    MacCallum More Museum And Gardens
    New Home
    Potomac River Artists Guild
    Rccac
    Rosemont Winery
    Savannah Tour
    Sterling Edwards
    Susan Harrison Tustain
    The Prizery
    VA
    Valley Art Assoc.
    WCMFA
    Work In Progress
    Wsac
    Wvws

    Archives

    January 2023
    September 2022
    March 2022
    August 2021
    July 2021
    March 2021
    January 2021
    October 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    October 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012

'This world is but a canvas to our imagination' - Henry David Thoreau