4 . 19 . 2015   A few months ago I took a photograph of a little wooded hillside at the foot of a mountain in Logan Canyon .... A painting from that.
I was told by the gallery that this painting with it's off-white mat and really nice frame went off to live somewhere in Texas.
   

 Finished work  ...Ready to go on a wall

These 4 mountain landscapes were framed at Prince Gallery in North Logan and are hanging there for sale.....  Prince Gallery, 2600 North Main ste 106,  North Logan, Utah

4 . 14 . 2015  ... Paintings #2 and #4 have been sold....

3 . 31 . 2015    ... Wanted to work up a nice little sepia toned graphite sketch using Derivan liquid graphite and a spattering of a mixture of yellow ochre/raw umber watercolor.  This is the result from this morning in my studio... an 8" x 11" ...had it finished in under an hour minus a little drying time.... pretty quick work time with the Derivan, painting straight from the bottle and putting it to paper.

3 . 30 . 2015 ..  A painting from last years autumn landscape work.... Liquid graphite and watercolor...

 3 . 27 . 2015     Receding snow

This is the first of several paintings for this year that will be available in numbered and signed prints.  If you are interested, you may email at eaverdine@gmail.com or refer to my web page.

Titled "East of Lewiston"...  it is of the mountains of southern Idaho.  I used some artistic license on the trees in the middle ground... by making them appear to be groups of aspens against the mountain range...

This painting is titled "High Mountain Autumn" ..  Another painting that is available as a signed print.  Again, if interested, email me at eaverdine@gmail.com  or use my web page.

3 . 21 2015 ...Watercolor 8" x 11" .... Went back to the old photo file for a redo of a painting that I had done this past summer ...This one is slightly larger though....   This painting is being framed at the gallery and will be shown at a later date on this blog...

                                        A summer painting from some months back....

            2 . 27 . 2015   Watercolor ...8 1/2" x 13"  Mountain range east of Lewiston, Idaho.

2 . 25 . 2015     Another variation of the small winter stream that I painted and posted a couple of days ago.... In this painting I made a few changes.   Placed a large white birch as a focal point and also gave the appearance of some additional trees in the tree line.  I liked the meandering stream and kept it, but made it less cluttered looking.

                                  2 . 22 . 2015  Small watercolor 6" x 8" in a 3" off-white mat ...

2 . 21. 2015 ... For those that were in my workshop ..This is the demo that I was working on for you that I never got to finish because I was having so much fun helping you individually.   As you can see it's still not finished.....  Maybe today I'll wrap it up, and then I'll repost the finished product for you ..

I think I liked the individual one-on-one work the best....  I got to paint and to help paint winter scenes, summer scenes, autumn scenes, and I don't know what scenes......but it was fun.

Finished painting

  2 . 20 . 2015    This is the small painting that I ended up with from a demo conducted in my studio... cleaned it up just a little bit at the end of the day when I could take a good look at where I was on it..  Started out this painting in the upright position as you can tell by the runs that I left there.  I'm never  too comfortable painting a watercolor from an upright easel, so I transitioned to a flat surface before it got away from me..... it actually turned out better then I was expecting.   But that's what so exciting about watercolor .... sometimes it's the end result that says it all..  You can have it go bad from the very beginning, or you can overwork it in the painting process, or have it surprise you and look pretty good as a final.

The progression of a painting

Finished painting..... made some minor adjustments from where I started.  Decided I wanted something a little brighter, so I glazed washes of Verditer Blue several times over the sky and even pushed it into the pines and yellow aspens.  Lightened up the rocks in the foreground and threw in some dead/dying pines to add a little interest, and put a yellow ochre wash over the aspens.....

Finished painting with 3 1/2" off-white mat

   Watercolor 9" x 10 1/2"   I titled this  "Across the creek, thru the meadow, to the woods"

                 A small graphite and watercolor 7" x 7 1/2" in a 3" off-white mat......"Squash"

In the autumn time my wife and I go to the local roadside markets in Brigham City to buy vegetables. During those trips, she likes to buy various types of squash that's worthy of laying out on a rack to dry.... consequently, I have on occasion painted these things because they each one have their own  interesting and different texture or color   ... this is a watercolor of one of those squash that we picked up...

               
                                                            West to the Wellsvilles

A few sketches from my sketchbook  .....some became paintings, some didn't...

1 . 24 . 2015   A studio painting from photographs and sketches...  Tried lots of 'glazing over' in this painting which seemed to almost move the foliage towards more opaqueness.  Sometimes I'll use gouache in some areas of a painting, but not in this one.... just watercolor.

There is a bit of variation from this preliminary sketch........

         A studio painting from photo references and sketches... 7" x 9" in a 3 1/2" off-white mat.

I've painted several paintings from this location, however this one was painted in my studio from photo references and past sketches...  This one is very similar to one I posted back in November... but, I wanted to tone down the colors a little more...Also, this painting has a little bit more pencil work showing.  It's a 8" x 8" in a 3 1/2" off-white mat.  One final note:  In the last few paintings I've done that have mountain rocks, I've attempted to cool the color down even more by adding a glaze of Verditer Blue once painting is dry.  Verditer Blue is made by Holbein.

Painted, using Derivan Liquid Pencil and watercolor on 300# rough Arches' paper.  The liquid pencil was used to render the dark pine trees...

1 . 6 . 2015 ... Watercolor  8" x 8" in a 3 1/2" off-white mat.   Final painting from photographs and sketches taken this summer....   "Ridge Pines #2"



"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream"  ...Vincent Van Gogh

 
                                           An unfinished watercolor sketch/painting..

  Watercolor .. 5 1/2" x 8" in a 3 1/2" off-white mat.  Another version of "Ridge Pines 1" that I did earlier this month that's shown below on the 2 December blog entry.

                                   

Autumn Paintings

Small watercolor 7 3/4" x 7 3/4" in an off-white mat

Graphite and watercolor sketches ... Small prelim sketches... the process that leads or moves me to a completed painting.

Painting the mountains in the Autumn is always a nice experience.....  Two more small watercolors ..