Watching You Watching Me

A Step-by-Step Watercolor Demonstration

Watching You Watching Me Study 6 x 9” Watercolor on Canson

Inspiration can come to us seemingly out of the blue sometimes, though we often go out of our way on long trips hoping to find it. But most often, we find that it is the simple things around us and the people we care about most which serve to get our artistic energies flowing. Our working motto is, “paint what you love and all will come right”, and it never fails. This watercolor demonstration is an example of how effective it can be to do just that.

This is a painting from our lives—a moment really—when I arose before Ann. Oliver the dog hopped up in bed to keep an eye on things, as he often does. It is an everyday occurrence, but this morning, something was different. Perhaps it was the arrangement of pillows, blanket and dog, or the interlocking shapes and colors, or maybe, the morning light had changed as winter gave way to spring. Perhaps it was everything combined to make a perfect moment and I knew that …