Watercolor Landscapes….. fresh, free and bold.
Influenced by John Singer Sargent, Margaret Coen and Penleigh Boyd.
Artists of extraordinary skill. With extraordinary depth of feeling for the landscapes they ‘befriended’ and painted.

Those artists had something, Special.
They traipsed the land and knew it well.
And by their knowing the land, were genius at painting its Portrait…… With depth, truth, passion and soul.
I’d like to emulate their approach, in that same fashion.
My Post on Margaret Coen Watercolor Diva shows a hint of how she painted.
Blue Bluff
Blue Bluff landscape was painted quickly.
References were ……From my memories of our winter’s fun and exciting Kalbarri week long outback adventures.
Watercolor Materials
I painted it on dry paper, to give a feeling of “immediacy.”
I used Arches 100% cotton Cold Press 300gsm.
The Daniel Smith watercolors I used: Ultramarine blue pb29, Quinacridone Sienna PO49/PR209 and Burnt Umber PBr7.
We can Never go too far wrong, with a limited palette!
Blue Bluff has just a wee bit of ink, placed in random areas in the foreground.
Posts and art images with the Mountain Theme:
Mountain and Diablo Lake
Very nice!
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thank you Nico 🙂
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wow i love this one:)
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hi Kathy, thanks!! glad that you loved it – makes my day 🙂 hugs!
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GORGEOUS!
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hi Jodi, so happy you enjoyed the Blue Bluff! Thank YOU!! cheers, Debi
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Beautiful colours – I love it!
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hi Jo, wow! so glad you like this, thank you 🙂 cheers, Debi
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You’re welcome.
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Love oranges and blues together! You blended them so well.
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thank you, glad you like that duet ! they are a pretty together. cheers, Debi
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Beautiful!
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thank you so much, I’m so pleased that you enjoyed this painting! cheers, Debi
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nice colors
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there’s that darn ‘orange’ again!! lol I’m feeling like something more abstract today …. get my brain cells firing up 🙂
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The limited palette works every time. Wonderful landscape from the imagination reliving those special memories – gorgeous.
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thank you! I’m pleased that you enjoyed this Andrew 🙂 cheers, Debi
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I have tried three times to leave a comment…..I’ll just say that your painting is beautiful and I think that I need to get DS Burnt Umber, much prettier than the other brands. Well, I hope this comment goes through! 😉
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hi – think this is going now. it went straight to spam bucket! ? crazy. why it would do this, after all this time of being ok, idk…. well, thank you Margaret. burnt umber is great as long as its Pbr7 LOL (there she goes again!) thank you for trying 3 times!! cheers, hugs for the efforts 🙂 debi
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lol! I tried and tried and I was determined! 🙂 I had that happened one day and three different blogger’s comments went o spam, I had to unlock them, been there, done that!
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guess I should look at spam more often.. never know, what one might find!
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FFB it is, fresh, free and bold a wonderfully expressed feeling!
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FFB it is! love that EVA 🙂 thank you, you clever woman !
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LOL, I take that! 🙂
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