"LEFT SIDE OF THE LAKE"

No. 290 of my 365/2010 series.

Title: "LEFT SIDE OF THE LAKE"

Size: app. 5.5x7.inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This is the left side of DIPTYCH. The right side will be posted tomorrow.

It is a scene from a sketch book done from a trip to Colorado. I do appreciated it when yo look at my work. Comments are also appreciated.

"OKLAHOMA LANDSCAPE"

No. 289 in my 365/2010 series

Title: "OKLAHOMA LANDSCAPE"

Size: app. 5x7 inches

Medium: watercolor on 149lb watercolor paper.

This is a typical landscape you see as you travel in N.W. Oklahoma. and a lone tree, a lone windmill is all you'll see for several miles. The last time I was out there on my way to the Kansas line, I drove 20 Min's. without seeing a single car.

That's next to impossible anywhere else.

I do appreciate you comments, and thanks for looking.

:A HOUSE IN WATONGA, OKLAHOMA"

No. 288 in my 365/2010 series

Title: A HOUSE IN WATONGA, OKLAHOMA

Size" 11x14 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 149lb. watercolor paper.

When I first saw this house I thought i might be by Frank Lloyd Wright, but on closer inspection I realized it was probably from a firm in Texas that was influenced by Wright as well as the Sullivan school.

It is very interesting and the inside is especially fantastic.

It will be at my show in Watonga in Oct.

I do hope you like what I do. Comment and/or remarks are appreciated.

"MY FRIEND JYMM"

No. 287 of my 365/2010 series.

Title: MY FRIEND JYMM"

Size: 18X24 inches

Medium: Tempera, and Acrylic on 90lb. student grade paper.

This is a Picasso like portrait of my friend JYMM. He posed briefly for me when I was showing my 6th grade students how to construct a self portrait in the manner that Picasso might do.

See if you can find all of Jymm. He is abstracted, taken apart and put back together a new way.

I do hope you like what I do. This is my 9/27 post.

Comment and/or remarks are appreciated.

SNOW SCENE NEAR MY HOUSE

No. 286 of my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: SNOW SCENE NEAR MY HOUSE

Size: App. 5x7

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. Watercolor paper.

Thought this little snow scene might be appropriate for today. It's long sleeve weather this morning so it will be a few snow scenes this week.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and /or remarks are welcome.

Please watch the Picasso tribute as it unfolds for the Oct. 25 completion.

FISHERMEN ON A MISTY LAKE

No. 285 of my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: FISHERMEN ON A MISTY LAKE

Size: 5X7

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This is the last on my MISTY miniature minimal paintings. Seems like they weren't liked so much.

I do appreciated all your comments and remarks. Thanks for always looking.

DUCK ON A MISTY MORNING LAKE.

No. 284 in my 365/2010 painting series.

This is another Minimal painting of a duck very early on a very misty covered lake.]

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated. Thanks you

MISTY BLUE MORNING

No. 283 in my 365/2010 series.
Title: "MISTY BLUE MORNING"
Size: app. 5X7 inches
Medium: watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper
Another miniature minimal painting done all in shades of blue.
looking out on a body of water with a pier and trees around you.
I'm having fun with the BIGGIE and these mini's
I sure hope you like what I do.
Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.
Also I hope you're enjoying my students work.

"MINIMAL MISTY MOON SET MORNING..."

No. 282 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "MINIMAL MISTY MOON SET MORNING...over a lake."

Size: 5X7 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

Minimal mean small in every way. Small i size, small in materials and small subject matter.

Very little watercolor use in a lot of water to create these small paintings with not much subject matter except what you can conjure up in your head.

What time of morning is it? What else might be on the lake? where is the horizon line?

I do hope you enjoy what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

Keep watching my Picasso tribute grow.

"WATONGA FARN OPERATION"

No. 281 in my365/2010 painting series.

Title: "WATONGA FARM OPERATION"

Size: 11x14 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. cold press watercolor paper.

I love these commanding structures that you see dotting the landscape all across western Oklahoma.

There are about 4 of these operation around this great little city of Watonga.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

Be sure to check out my other blogs at Blogspot.com

"ROSE DEMO"

No. 280 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "ROSE DEMO"

Size. 7.5X 10.5 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140 lb. cold press paper.

I couldn't resist counting this as one of my 365 paintings.

The other day one of my former private students asked me to show her how to paint roses. Here's what I did, in about 5 mins. This is how I start my roses and sometimes they are just good enough to keep on the first cut.

I wet the paper and put on the color gray, background first, the splotch in the color for the rose. Then I take two lenghts of paper towel and fold into a double fold length wise. then I Begin to crumple it up between my fingers at the middle of the rose, like I was going to make a paper rose. leaving the exposed edge loose and crumpling it even more as I go around and rounds the center gathering and going out further each time to make the size of the rose I want to make. Then I just turn the paper rose over and press it onto the west colored rose. then I speckled salt for background texture. The I took one brush load of yellow ochre and thalo blue making green and put in the stem. Then with and two strokes (CALOGRAPHIC STROKES) for each leaf. Then I use the handle of the brush to scratch out one side of the stem and the middle of each leaf.

There you have a basic watercolor lesson. If I wanted to take this to realism, I simple find the edges of the rose petals and add my darks and lights to create the forms.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated. Posting this early today....

"TEXAHOMA MARINA"

No. 279 of my365/2010 painting series.

Title: "TEXHOMA MARINA'

Size: 18x24 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 90 lb. student watercolor paper.

This is really a plein-air watercolor sketch done on location. Someday I hope to do a larger competition piece of this. It is so beautiful at the lake.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comment and/or remarks are appreciated.

"WHITE VASES"

No. 278 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "WHITE VASES"

Size: 22x30 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches 100%rag paper.

This is another on of the Demo paintings done with a credit card, feathers and paper towels.

I probably do 30 -40 -f these a year. and love to show out. Takes about 45-60 minutes to do one, using a hairdryer of course.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

Thanks you.

"TRAILS AT LAKE ARKABUTLA"

No. 277 of my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "TRAILS AT LAKE ARKABUTLA"

Size: 16x20 inches

Medium: Acrylic on canvas board.

This is another one of the Plein-aire painting I did at lake Arkabutla near Tunica, Mississippi. This is a view of the walking trails at the edge of the water.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

RIDING WITH THE WHALES.

No. 276 of 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "RIDING WITH THE WHALES"

Size: app. 7x9 inches

Medium: watercolor on cold press paper.

Another one painted from my Alaskan sketches.

I never got to see a whale breech but just to be in the same waters with them was an amazing event of my life.

I do hope you like what I'm trying to do with my paintings.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"GLACIER FLOW AS I FLOAT IN ALASKA"

No. 275 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "GLACIER FLOW AS I FLOAT IN ALASKA"

Size: app. 5x7 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. cold press paper.

This piece was painted from the observation of the Princess Star. I have been inspired and moved many times by the places I have encountered and felt compelled to be closer to the GREAT CREATOR. Being here alone and floating with the chunks of Ice in the ocean and floating by this amazing mass of moving ice, was incredible.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"ARKABUTLA RIVER, TUNICA, MISSISSIPPI"

No. 274 in my 365/2010 painting series.
Title: "ARKABUTLA RIVER, TUNICA, MISSISSIPPI"
Size: 16X20 inches.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas board.

This is another one of the Plien-air pieces done on location in about 20 to 25 min's.
the water in the sun was a very bright yellowish color just as it is here.
I do hope you like what I do.
Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"ROCK CLIFFS WITH TREES"

No. 273 of my 365/201- painting series.

Title: "ROCK CLIFFS WITH TREES"

Size: app. 14X18 inches

Medium: watercolor on 80lb. student grade paper.

This was a demo for one of my private students on how to paint cliffs or rocks with a credit card.

I do hope you like what I do.

Please note that although the auction was called off. these pieces are really affordable if you would like one or more.

Comments are appreciated

ON THE HWY TO PRINCETON, ALABAMA.

No. 272 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "ON THE HWY TO PRINCETON, ALABAMA"

Size: 5X7 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. cold press paper.

This little barn in on the side of the highway into Princeton, Al. I think it might be Highway 65 north of Huntsville.

It's on the way to my cousin Roger Lyon's house.

Sorry about the glare on the tree.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"TUG TOWING A RUSSIAN SUBMARINE OFF ALASKA SHORE.'

No. 271 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "TUG TOWING A RUSSIAN SUBMARINE OFF ALASKA SHORE"

Size App. 7X9 inches.

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. Watercolor paper.

This is a painting from one of my photos from out Alaskan cruise. This is a Russian Submarine being towed back to Russian through Alaskan Waters. I thought it was really close to be that close an event like this.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

The daily auctions are off. But if you would like this painting, post a bid, so every one can see your bid and maybe outbid you. This ends tomorrow night at 12 midnight.

"WHAT'S IN THESE FORMATIONS"

What do you see here?

No. 270 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "WHAT'S IN THESE FORMATIONS"

Size: 9x12 inches.

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. cold press paper.

Thanks for all you comments on yesterdays post.

I actually saw these formations along with several other "image" formations in Grapevine Canyon just north west of Laughlin Nevada on the way to Las Vegas.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"WHAT DO YOU SEE"

No. 269 in my365/2010 painting series.

Title: "WHAT DO YOU SEE"

Size: 11x14

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. cold press paper.

What do you see in this rock formation. I saw this on my way into the Grapevine Canyon. a week ago in Arizona. I can see amazing things in the formations. Oklahoma had a great many Indian figures laying all in the mountains in southwest Oklahoma.

Play my game what do you see. I'll post what I saw later tomorrow.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comment and/or remarks are appreciated.

"BOAT DOCKS AT LAKE TEXHOMA"

No. 268 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "BOAT DOCKS AT LAKE TEXHOMA"

Size 18x24 inches

Medium: Watercolors on 90 lb. sulphite paper.

This is another on the spot painting done in about 30 Min's. It was a cloudy day with rain moving in over the lake. I love sitting out in the open in this kind of weather on water. anywhere.

I do hope you like what I do and yes this is being posted after 11 today but thought I would save time in the morning.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"CELEBRATING JOHN'S BIRTHDAY"

No. 267 of my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "CELEBRATING JOHN'S BIRTHDAY"

Size: 16x20 inches

Medium: Acrylic on canvas panel.

Celebrating John's, my son, 33rd birthday today with this painting in his favorite colors of blue. In this piece you will find his name, John Thomas Anderson, his birth date, 9-7-77, his wife's name, his two son's names, the state he was born in. church references, golf represented two ways. his high school and college. and a few other little tidbits.

Have a nice birthday john.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

Be sure to go to http://www.arnisartauction-arni.blogspot.com/ and bid on the auction piece that goes off tonight at midnight.

"EAST SIDE OF THE DAM, ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI"

This is No. 266 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "EAST SIDE OF THE DAM, ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI"

Size: 7x9 inches

Medium: watercolor on 140lb. cold press paper.

This is one of the little Plien-aire painting done from the car. It was painted in about 15-20 Min's. while sitting in the car enjoying a little mist of rain. One of my favorite things to do is go to the dam during a thunder and lighting storm and watch the reflections on the water and listen to the noises of nature.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

:FEATHERED FLOWERS"

No. 265 in my 365/2010 painting series..ONLY 100 LEFT TO GO!!!!

Title: "FEATHERED FLOWERS"

Size 15x22 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. cold press watercolor paper.

This is another one of demos done using only a feather and my fingernails to paint it.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"ANTIQUE FIRE TRUCK, WATONGA OK."

No. 264my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "ANTIQUE FIRE TRUCK, WATONGA, OK."

Size 8.5x11 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. cold press paper.

I found this old fire truck behind one of the building in downtown Watonga, Oklahoma. It looks to b from the late 20's or early 30's. I tried to look it up but couldn't find one like it. the style is that of the era I've quote. If you know the year and the make I would like to know also. Thanks for any help. I do love to paint vehicles.

I do hope you like my work. Comments and /or remarks are appreciated.

"FERGUSON'S CHAPEL, WATONGA, OK."

This is the No. 263 painting in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "FERGUSON'S CHAPEL, WATONGA, OKLAHOMA.

Size: 8.5x11 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. cold press paper.

This is one of the most interesting little churches I've seen in Oklahoma.

I got to go inside it in June this year and it is really a nice little place for community events in Watonga.

I do hope you like what i do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"5 PARROTS"

No. 262 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "5 PARROTS"

Size: 22x30 inches

Medium acrylics on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This is another in one of my reteaching color theory and design series.

This one was started some time ago and then the principles of of elaborations and variations were added yesterday.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

TUBAC MISSION, IN ARIZONA"

No. 261 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "TUBAC MISSION, IN ARIZONA"

Size: 22X30 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb, DeArches cold press paper.

This is painted from photos and sketches from a visit to Arizona a few years back.

I had just been , earlier that day, to San Xavier in Tuscon and when I saw the TWO white domes of this mission it really did make me forget the beauty of San Xavier for a few days.This one was in total ruins except for the dome that the community kept white washed year round.

I do hope you like what I do .

Comment and/or remarks are appreciated.