Pouring a Glass of Wine

So I was trying to paint the act of pouring a glass of wine.  I totally obliterated the right side of both glasses, but I think its totally cool.  I should have been a little tighter with the wine bottles, but.... you know, sometimes you just get a little carried away.    They were both fun to paint.  Hope you guys enjoy them.

More Sketching from the Hotel

This watercolor painting for sale.  5 1/2 x 8 1/2.  $7

 These are two pictures I did of centerpieces at the hotel last week.  Once again, I started to draw these, and then quickly decided that given my drawing skills it would be much easier to just paint them.  The flowers were in nice glass jars, and were mostly either green, or orange flowers.  There were the occasional calla lilly, but even those were pretty green.

Ok, ok, ok, I know they aren't the most technically perfect paintings in the world.  I didn't really try to paint a technically perfect painting.  I don't know that that is something I will ever do, but what I did was give a fair and accurate representation of the bouquets.

While I was painting the top one, I had several members of the convention I was working stop to talk to me about painting and watercolors and what not.  It was really nice to be able to chat about it.  

This watercolor painting for sale.  5 1/2 x 8 1/2.  $7

While painting this one, which is, again  just a simple painting of some flowers in a jar (errr, well the centerpieces on the tables),  I got the chance to talk to a couple of students that I might never had had the chance to spend much time with otherwise.  It was really nice to know we have such nice students at good ole Cal Poly.

I have to say that the paintings might not be the greatest, but the time to talk and share with those around me while I was painting more than makes up for and deficiency in the paintings.

Hope you all enjoy these a much as I enjoyed painting them.

Campus Market

Can you guess what this is a picture of?  Yes, you got it, the Campus Market.  And guess what else, they have a potato bar.  Woooo Hooo.   I love the look of the metal, stone and glass on this  building.  I tried to do it justice.  In reality there are a few picnic tables in front of the building, but I tried to draw them and it got to be just a bit too much, so I left them off.  Looking back now, it really could use something in the lower right hand corner to balance the picture out a bit.