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My painting of Marine Storm Sea after Robert HenriOn the blog Following the Masters this month Michelle has given us the opportunity to paint from Robert Henri's paintings. Although I have his boo...
Lemon ~ Pastel Chalk(click on picture to enlarge)I think I mentioned this sketchbook, as well as many others, back in February 2007. This one has a corrugated brown cardboard cover with brown paper ...
Here are two pen and ink sketches from yesterdays walk along the shore line.This is Mt Rainier in the back-ground. The body of water is Case Inlet and the shore below the mountain is Key PeninsulaI ...
Yellow house on 6th Avenue- Virtual PaintoutI love contour drawing.....I've decided to give Virtual Paintout a try. Oh boy, what fun. I found I was all over San Francisco using Google Street View....
What a beautiful sunny day it turned out to be. I think I heard the weather reporter this evening say it reached 61 degrees here today. I'm seeing daffodils ready to bloom in a lot of yards, and ye...
All illustration's copyright ©2009-2010 Nancy Van BlaricomIn the photo above you can see a few pages of finished illustrations I have completed for the children's book I have been working on. Each ...
Day before yesterday, the mail-man brought me a wonderful book. Its a huge book. The book measures 9" x 6" x 2". It is written in columns like a newspaper. It's ten years of over a thousand unabridge...
To the left, my small thumbnail marker pen value sketch of EllenHale's "Morning News" from the magazine article.In this Victoria magazine article, February 2002, the author Claire Whitcomb tells o...
Now that the holidays are behind us I'm once again able to center my attention on the children's book I am illustrating. There are so many steps to making a book. Picture sequence, storyboard and bo...
John Singer Sargent's The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy This is a painting of Jane while she is sitting straight-backed at her easel beside her husband at the fountain.The magazine artic...
From my watercolor journal/sketchbookI'm starting out this new year with some big changes. I've switched to a Mac! I was tired of always having to stop what I was doing and re-boot or some foolish ...
This is a little sketch I posted last December. His charming manner always brings a smile to my face, dressed prim and proper, yet so soft and adorable.I've almost completed my list of Christmas cho...
For our last watercolor class of the 6 weeks, I made each person an accordion sketchbook, approx. size of each page is 5" x 4". We started off with some un-intimidating paper and drew stick fig...
Do you ever find you have started too many projects to do a good job on any of them? Probably not, but, I find I do this often. Such as teaching a watercolor class once a week, (this has been a gre...
I have been busy in the studio this month. Really it started in October with the preparations for the Annual Arts and Flowers week-end. They had a nice turn-out and I so enjoyed visiting with new and...
Here are a couple of preliminary thumbnail drawings I did today. I love the green upward movement of the trees with the formation of the clouds in the background. I think this would be a fun painting...
I'm finding it hard to believe that Autumn is in full swing and that we only have about 9 days left of October. This year seems particularly beautiful with more gold and yellow leaves with some occas...
I can't remember when I've had such a busy yet relaxing summer. The fact that I refused to put pressure on myself to paint any masterpieces has certainly helped. I do have plenty of projects I'm work...
It was another hot day here and although I haven't been doin' what I think I should be doin', playing around with watercolor on the back of some printer paper made me feel I was at least doing somet...
Although my last commission almost painted itself, after coming back from vacation I am finding it hard to get myself back in the art producing spirit. In order to over come my less than creative moo...
Toddler - watercolor, 8"x 6" After finishing the dog commission I posted last week, I think, by far, that a portrait has to be the most difficult subject for me to paint. Because we have met this pe...
Looking back at a sketch I'd done a few years ago I have to wonder what this was all about. I hadn't finished this sketch when I put it away for the day ... week, month, ok, truth be known it's been ...
Beau - watercolor aprox. 8" x 9Matted to 11" x 14"I've completed my commission of Beau. I was pleased with the results of this portrait and although I don't often do portraits, this one came together...
I received this in my mailbox while I was away. If you haven't seen it yet I think you'll enjoy it as much as I have."Starry Night A tribute to Van Gogh . The song was a tribute to Van Gogh. This is ...
Seal - looking cute, bumming for some herring in the northwestern inland marine waterwasy of Washington It's been a wonderful 3 weeks on vacation, but it's now time to look over my photo's and see w...
sketches for a children's book -Nancy Van BlaricomAlthough I have not been doing any of the art work I had originally thought my summer would be ...
Sailboat in Marina - sketchbookI think this summer will be a time for enjoying sketching and exploring water and reflections. I have two books on the subject of painting water and I will be trying a...
Saturday I attended the Peninsula Art Association's Artist's Reception and Award Ceremony where I was thrilled to receive 2nd place in watercolor for my small Great Blue Heron painting. Great Blue He...
Beach Rope Swing - 10.5" x 15" gessoed 300lb coldpress watercolor paper This is a painting I briefly talked about having started back in March on the 17th. Today after working on it awhile I see I'm...
Another sketch from my sketchbook. I used ballpoint pen to sketch it out and watercolor from my small traveling palette. I love the bright colors of this IKEA umbrella. It even makes a rainy day mor...
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