I was invited to join three artists for my first Valentine Painting Challenge by
Pablo Villicana Lara along with
Jelaine Faunce and
Geraud Staton. What an honor to join these three super talented painters for a fun run of incorporating
Sweethearts candies in our paintings.
After much thought of coming up with ideas for this challenge, I considered painting an unwrapped chocolate foil heart against a background of scattered
Sweethearts candies. Crumpled foil is a subject matter I love to do. Once I proceeded with photography of the little still life I set up and drew it on my watercolor paper, it was so involved I thought for sure I would miss the deadline and abandoned that idea.
I choose a glass, heart shaped bottle with a cork stopper filled with
Sweethearts and proceeded with a high key watercolor of it.
It sure delighted and amazed me when I saw the finished challenge paintings by Pablo, Geraud, and Jelaine! Wow!
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| "Heart Full of Hearts", watercolor 10"x8", Kathleen Ballard |
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| "XO", watercolor 8"x10" watercolor, Pablo Viillicana Lara |
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| "Candy Love", 6"x6" Oil on Canvas, Geraud Staton |
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| "Playing with the Queen of Hearts", 6"x6" oil, Jelaine Faunce |
