Early Halloween

Is it too early for Halloween? Yes, probably, but...

 We went to Disneyland last week and it was so much visual fun. 

You know what I mean... everywhere, the details, so fun to look at.

So I planned to do some plein air this week,

 but instead I just had fun painting this little fantasy house out of my head.

It will be a project for my watercolor students this fall. 

Update--Go to this link to see their work

Teen class link 

 And here is the demonstration I did for the teen class.

Night Watercolor Study

Just a quick demonstration/study I did for the class today to show what you can do with night.

The lit gas station, dark against darks, highlighted roads, silhouettes...

I will definitely do more of these on bigger paper.

The students had many references to choose from. 

You can see some of the photos they had to choose from here.

http://mklart.blogspot.com/p/homework.html

watercolor on 5x14 inch paper