Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Looking at paintings that I have done in Denver Botanic Gardens gets me excited about going there to paint. My weekend workshops at the gardens start in June and I like to paint there once or twice a week before the workshops start. All that beauty can be overwhelming and I always carry a viewer to help me focus in on areas that I find particularly intriguing. This painting is a good example because it is a small part of a large fl

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Spring is here in Denver and it won't be long before I am painting in our Botanic Gardens. This is a painting of the lily pad pond in front of the Beehive Cafe. I watched the figure working and decided on this gesture where he was bent over pulling on one of the lily pads. The sunlight on the worker was what attracted me with his face in shadow and the sunlight and shadow on his cloths and high boats. In a situation like this I of

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Every Spring I teach a watercolor workshop in Taos New, Mexico and this is a painting I did in a little town just outside of Taos. This gives me the opportunity to write a little bit about plein air painting which is painting outdoors on location. First think about the time of day and the weather. Cast shadows are longer in the morning and evening but they can be interesting to paint any time of day. It was near the middle of the