Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is another painting from my Denver Botanic Garden series. Once again I created my own border and then made that border part of the painting. I enjoy working with color schemes and a complimentary color scheme is where the two dominate colors are compliments of each other, in this case orange and blue. Actually a strict complimentary color scheme only uses the two complimentary colors so I call this a semi-complimentary color s

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is the second painting in my series of 22 x 30 paintings of Denver Botanic Gardens. Creating my own borders and then making the borders part of the paintings has been a fun part of the project. I have been studying "equalization" while working on this series because it was used by some of my favorite artists like Gustav Klimt and Pierre Bonnard. Vincent Van Gogh also used a form of equalization in some of his landscapes and ce

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I thought it would be appropriate to to send a painting of a rose to everyone on Valentines day as a way to say thank you for staying in touch by opening my Sunday emails. This painting is part of a series that I am working on of full sheet watercolors, 22 x 30 where I create my own borders and then those borders to become part of the painting. I took some pictures of this rose right after it rained in the hope that I could figure ou

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I was putting together a class that I am teaching about painting the Italian Coastline when I came across this painting I had done when I was in the little fishing village of Vernazza in Cinque Terre. I sat in a restaurant at the harbor after lunch and painted this view from my table. The waiters were quite polite letting me stay on after lunch and they kept checking to see how my painting was coming along. I stayed in Cinque Terr