Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is a painting that I did from a photo and it gives me the opportunity to talk about what an artist should consider when working from photo's. First, the camera puts everything in sharp focus and that is not the way the human eye works. When we are looking at something, in this case the dilapidated barn, things in our peripheral vision are not in sharp focus. It is the artist's job to decide what to emphasize and what to play d

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Complimentary colors are opposite colors on the color wheel and they always work well together in a painting. In this case, red violet and yellow green are the complimentary colors that I used for the basis of my color scheme. They are known as tertiary colors and they result from mixing a primary color with a secondary color. There are other colors in this painting such as blue violet and blue green, also tertiary colors, and yet

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is a painting that I did as a demonstration in one of my classes at the Art Students League of Denver. It is one of the interesting neighborhoods in Taos, New Mexico where I teach an annual watercolor workshop. The adobe structure is actually the back of a charming little mission that serves this neighborhood. I have seen paintings from the front with the bell tower and the entrance but I was intrigued with this viewpoint becau

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is a plein air painting from my last workshop in Taos New Mexico. As I look at it now I am amazed because it looks like a warm Autumn day in the land of enchantment and yet in reality it was quite cold. Once I started painting, it wasn't long before most of the class moved back into the Mabel Dodge Luhan House to get warm. They also had homemade cookies, tea and coffee in the dining room. In spite of the cold temperature, it