Experiments on Watercolor Canvas

I found a few 18 x 24 sheets of watercolor canvas in my studio and have been playing with them this week while avoiding the painting on my easel.....  These are watercolor/ink/acrylic/oil pastel on watercolor canvas.  They are sort of wrinkly still as I haven't mounted or stretched them yet.

●Fantasy Garden
24 x 18 Mixed media on watercolor canvas 

Storm Warning
24 x 18 Mixed Media on Watercolor Canvas 

Keeping busy in the Studio

Summer Storm
27 x 34 Watercolor and Acrylic on Arches Paper 

Spending a lot of time in the garden....

Geranium
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas

Upside down or sideways?

More in the industrial abstract series with a quandary.  I worked on this in multiple directions and now am conflicted about which way to show it.  I finally ruled out the other directions anyway...

Blue Industry (1)
30 x 30 Oil on Canvas 

Blue Industry (2)
30 x 30 Oil on Canvas

Still Using all the Colors...

Another 12 x 12 study of the local mill.  This got a lot more colorful than the original watercolor sketch.

•Mill Study
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Canna Dreams

Dreaming of adding some yellow cannas to the gardens....

Canna Dreams
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Garden Stars

I planted Nasturtium seeds last year about this time in a large clay pot.   They bloomed but quickly got  burnt out in the heat so I just cut them back and left them in.  They came back this fall and have been blooming and climbing like crazy so I just had to paint them before the summer heat gets them again. 

●Nasturtium Study
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Strolling Around Town

This is not the best photo as I was taking pictures and trying to keep an eye on the Skink that has taken up residence on the studio porch at the same time.....

●Wicked Good!
14 x 11 Oil on Canvas 

Jaxport

•Port Study
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Just for Fun

I was thinking of the line from the Jean Cocteau poem "On The Waves".....

●Springtime at the Bottom of the Sea
17 x 30 Watercolor and mixed media on Paper

Mill and Bridge Study

Fragments
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Cranes at JaxPort

Another 12 x 12 study of the cranes at JaxPort.  The wheel structures are cable reels in case you are wondering like I was...

JaxPort Study
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas