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Rusty Bolt - Watercolor
Rusty Bolt - watercolor painting This is a painting of a rusty bolt. Overall I am happy how it worked out. It is about 9 x 12 on hot press. The thing I am working on is to keep the washes really light… more →
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Rusty Bolt - Watercolor
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chrisgentes wrote 2 weeks ago: Rusty Bolt - watercolor painting This is a painting of a rusty bolt. Overall I am happy how it worke … more →
Guggenheim Museum Watercolor
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chrisgentes wrote 3 weeks ago: Guggenheim Museum Watercolor I’ve started a new process for working on watercolors, and this p … more →
Miss Florence Diner - watercolor study
chrisgentes wrote 1 month ago: I started this painting with a few goals in mind. First, it is done on HotPress 140 lb, about 10 … more →
Another Vermeer Study
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chrisgentes wrote 1 month ago: I started another study of Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” back in early Oct … more →
continuation of Vermeer study - 3
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chrisgentes wrote 2 months ago: study Rey demonstrated some painting techniques on this painting today in class, and I worked on it … more →
More Studies of "Big" Discovery
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chrisgentes wrote 2 months ago: Here is a series of studies I did after my ‘big’ discovery (read this post for info). I … more →
A "Big" Discovery
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chrisgentes wrote 2 months ago: Late in August I had one of those little moments of discovery which I call a ‘big’ disco … more →
Empire State Building Watercolor
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chrisgentes wrote 2 months ago: This is a picture from August of the watercolor painting of the Empire State Building. I didn’ … more →
Resolution of Windows on Empire State Building Watercolor
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chrisgentes wrote 2 months ago: I’m back to blogging after taking the summer off (from blogging – not art). I will hopef … more →
Color mixing & Carol's palette
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carolking wrote 3 months ago: An artist and blogger Anya published a post about color palettes and color mixing. Her funny post … more →
Trouble with Windows on Empire State Building watercolor
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chrisgentes wrote 5 months ago: windows in 1st study ABOVE: This is how the windows came out in the initial study I did for the Empi … more →
Thoughts on the Study for the Empire State Building Painting
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chrisgentes wrote 6 months ago: color study for painting While working on the Empire State Building watercolor study, I took notes o … more →
A Few Thoughts on a Recent Painting
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chrisgentes wrote 6 months ago: I spent the last few days doing some simple color mixing exercises to try and gain a better understa … more →
Empire State Building watercolor study
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chrisgentes wrote 6 months ago: empire state building watercolor study - finished This study is done and it was invaluable for me to … more →
watercolor study Empire State Building WIP-1
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chrisgentes wrote 6 months ago: watercolor study empire state building This is a study (8 x 10) I am doing for an eventual larger … more →
Main Street, Northampton, Watercolor WIP-3
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chrisgentes wrote 6 months ago: Main Street watercolor work in progress-3 I’m on vacation so I was trying to emulate the photo … more →
Main Street Northampton, Watercolor, WIP-2
chrisgentes wrote 6 months ago: Main Street Northampton, Watercolor, work in progress For some reason I wanted to start putting in t … more →
Main Street Northampton, Watercolor WIP-1
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chrisgentes wrote 6 months ago: Main Street Northampton Watercolor - Under Painting With this one I am having an fun time conceptual … more →
Thumbnail Sketches for upcoming paintings
chrisgentes wrote 6 months ago: thumbnail sketch for Main Street Northampton watercolor I’ve been reading an excellent book ca … more →
