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Posted on 2/11/2025 12:20:08 AM
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It is an honor to be juried into the 16th Annual Signature Watercolor Exhibit at the Fallbrook Art Center, in Fallbrook, CA. The show runs from April 15 - May 17, 2025. Any Signature Member in any recognized Watercolor Society can submit paintings to be judged and this is the first time I have been lucky enough to have got two paintings into the show. Each time that I have viewed the show I have been stunned by the individual paintings, done by people recognized in the medium. It is no wonder that I feel so grateful to be in the show. One of the paintings is of my friends getting ready for a dance, and is entitled, "Finery for the dancers". The second is of a very different scene, also very familiar to me of a lake where the roots of the trees surrounding it, dip in and out of the lake and the birds take advantage of them my sitting on the roots. This painting is entitled, "Wet roots, dry feet". Both are in watercolor and are 21" x 29".
Posted on 12/12/2024 10:43:49 PM
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I was commissioned by Provident Bank to paint their calendar for 2025. This is the third time I have done their calendar. It was a huge honor to be asked and especially so as this is one of their branches, and this building turns 100 years in 2025. They usually choose one of the historic buildings of Riverside, CA, and this time it just happened to be special for them. As their Marketing team floated the idea of how it looked way back 100 years ago, it occurred to me to take photos of how it looks now and imagine part of it like it would have looked then. "Morphing" it from old to new, was how I imagined it and I did not want to infringe any copyright of other existing images. I just had to think what the color would look like in the old part. I researched various tones of sepia, and settle on one type, which I matched with my watercolors. I also added a vintage car in the matching tone. Once this part was done, I did a study, had it approved and then did this image, which is on a full sheet of watercolor paper, 21" x 29". It came out pretty close to how I envisioned it at first, but as the building lacked too much interest in the front, I added interesting shadows in blues, greens and purples to bring it to life. The painting has been framed and is set to hang inside the same building.
Posted on 12/12/2023 12:35:42 AM
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Recently I joined the FASO community by transferring my website from another host. The process was so easy and effortless. I had done all my research on the change and had backed up certain files which I had there, so I could just copy them over (not on Word, but on RichText). The documentation which FASO provided me with everything I need to make the change, and I would suggest anyone wanting to do the same, to go through the process carefully, taking your time. I needed a code from the other provider, and they too worked with me to make things easy.
FASO staff had already taken some of my images from my Boldbrush competition entries to produce a framework for my website. This helped immensely, even though I tweaked the images and added further details to each including incorporating sale through PayPal. I could also add videos and a blog.
I am learning various aspect of it and hope to keep adding artwork and improving my website.
Posted on 10/21/2023 10:26:21 PM
By Geeta Pattanaik
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Watercolor sketches done plein air
Recently on a trip to the coast, I decided to learn how to paint waves. It is not easy to paint such a transitory thing, so some of it comes from observation and some of it comes from memory. So I wanted to learn how the waves form and how they crash and reform, so that it would be easier to paint them at any given stage. I painted some watercolor sketches plein air and then away from the scene, tried to put down from my memory what I had observed during the day. Doing both on the same day definitely helped to commit them to memory.
