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See The Painting in my Gallery I Received the 2021 Pollyanna Pickering Award from AFC at the Sonora Desert Museum Exhibit in Tucson Swipe the slides to see next image I recently won the inaugural Artists For Conservation Pollyanna Pickering Award.
The award, which was given by Anna-Louise Pickering in honor of her mother Pollyanna[…]

My Online Store is open for business My online store is open finally.
I’m offering originals, signed and numbered limited edition Giclée Archival Pigment prints, and framed and unframed posters, as well as tote bags and phone cases.
Check it out and do a starving artist a favor and brighten up a room while you[…]

Buy the Original or Prints:25% goes to support the Taita Wildlife Conservancy Shop Now!!! Just Completed: Taita Thrush Buy Art Now Watercolor, 31″ x 23″ on Legion Special Handmade Rough 300 lb rag paper: $10,000 I was donated a few sheets of this exquisite handmade paper from an unknown (secret) mill, by Michael Ginsberg from[…]

Buy the Original or Prints:25% goes to support the WWF’s Tiger Program Shop Now!!! Just Completed: Bengal Tiger Buy Art Now Watercolor, 38″ x 30″ on Hahnemühle Watercolor Collection 140 lb rag paper: $12,000 I ordered a few sheets of oversize Hahnemühle from Acuity Papers, at a great price, and tried out my new Black[…]

Sea Salt watercolor paper tests I’m testing six watercolor papers to see how they respond to a sea salt lifting technique I use frequently in my wildlife art.
Papers will be tested in two parts, with the papers in part one being: Stonehenge Aqua Hot Press 275 lb Hahnemühle Cold Press 300 lb Canson Heritage[…]

Sea Salt watercolor paper tests I’m testing six watercolor papers to see how they respond to a sea salt lifting technique I use frequently in my wildlife art.
Papers will be tested in two parts, with the papers in part one being: Stonehenge Aqua Hot Press 275 lb Hahnemühle Cold Press 300 lb Canson Heritage[…]

9: Arches 300 lb rough, bright white: Arches is the mac-daddy of watercolor papers – pretty much the reigning champion, and for the most part, I can see why.
It has a truly beautiful, non-mechanical mould-made texture, with a satiny soft and receptive surface.
The bright white is a whiter paper than the natural, as[…]

8: Saunders Waterford 300 lb cold press: Saunders Waterford is a sumptuous, luxurious paper.
Whil etheir rough is know to be the roughest of the rough textures (on par with Lanaquarelle rough), I found their cold press to have a very subtle texture, much smoother than Arches cold press.
Arches is a good point of[…]

4: Canson Heritage 300 lb rough (reverse side): I saw a review in which the reviewer discovered that she had perhaps been using the wrong side of the paper, and she was delighted by the performance of what she thought was the reverse, so just in case, I flipped my test swatch over and painted[…]