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The book that I have written about painting on Watercolor Canvas is now available on this website. Click here for more news about painting on watercolor canvas.
To order the book click the link in the navigation bar to the left.
To me, it is a wonderful and rewarding challenge...something new and innovative, and the watercolor, if treated with an acrylic varnish does not need glass in the frame. I am enthusiastic about the future of this new way of painting in watercolor. There are so many variations and methods of achieving new and exciting effects.
(There is also another surface that has these same features. I also paint on Claybord®) See the paintings from Provence.
The following paintings will be featured in step by step visuals and explanation.
Mary Ann Boysen (for more information call 888-875-9892)
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Music Street Melody
a watercolor on Canvas, treated with Acrylic Soft Gel Medium
Image: 24" x 36"
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Winter Solstice
a watercolor on Canvas, treated with Acrylic Soft Gel Medium
Image: 24" x 36"
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Stream Through the Snow
a watercolor on Canvas, treated with Acrylic Soft Gel Medium
Image: 20" x 24"
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Two Lilies in a Garden of Fern
This was painted with heavy watercolor pigment to resemble the strong color of oils.
Image: 20" x 24"
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The Harbor in Honfleur, France
Image: 20" x 24"
This one was sold before completion!
The detail took much longer than expected, but was a challenge that I enjoyed.
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SOLD
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Willie
A wonderful pet miniature donkey, who is so fat that when he rolls in the pasture to scratch his back, he needs help to right himself.....much to the chagrin of the barn workers.
Image: 9" x 12"
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Ah! The Better to Taste you with My Dear!
One of the two Belted Galloway cows that graced the pasture next door for a number of years. Old, fat, blind, and without a tail (it was yanked off when she got it stuck in the crotch of a tree!
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Waiting for the Mail
a watercolor on CANVAS
20" x 24"
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Peony and Iris, 20" x 24"
Once again I ended up with a heavy hand in painting this on canvas, but the urge to make the flowers look smoothe requires that the canvas be covered with thick paint.
I thicken the paint with more opaque colors, and even mix the dark colors with a white gouache to give it more viscosity.
When the acrylic varnish is applied, the work looks like it is done in oil or acrylic.
This does not bother me but it is certainly different than painting totally transparent.
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San Miguel Laundresses
9" x 12"
Mexican Ladies haul their family's laundry to the local park where there are stationary tubs adnd a water trough for fresh water. Since the weather is so chilly in San Miguel during the night, they don't come to the park until about 10:30 a.m. to start their work. By then the sun has warmed. The work all day until they are finished, then wheel the clean laundry home to hang it out to dry.
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The San Miguel Laundry
14" x 18"
The shadows in the park travel across the stones and up the wall, giving shade to the ladies as they scrub their clothes.
They sing and converse and giggle. It is a social event inspite of the hard work. |
