Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. On Friday I painted in Washington Park Denver with an artist friend. I wasn't quite satisfied with my painting and the next day I painted in the same location with two other artists friends and, this time, I was happy with my results. The first day I did as good as I could that day and it took a second attempt, using what I learned the first day, to get the painting I wanted. One of my mentors Chen Chi said "only ask yourself if yo

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I just returned from my annual Watercolor Workshop in Taos, New Mexico and I would like to thank all the artists who participated. The weather and the sunlight were fabulous and it was fun painting with everyone. I returned to Denver with plein air paintings and drawings in my sketchbook and decided to do this painting from one of those sketches and photo's that I had taken. I was captivated by the sunlight coming through the trees

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Later this year I will be teaching a workshop "Painting the English Countryside In Watercolor" and this is a painting I did in preparation for the class. I have always admired so many of the English artists and how many of them do such wonderful paintings in watercolor. Even members of the royal family paint in watercolor. Two of my favorite English painters are John Yardley and Trevor Chamberlain and I have learned a lot from stud

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I am planning a one day online zoom workshop on painting sunsets in watercolor and this is one of the preliminary studies for the workshop. Sunsets with all their fleeting beauty are different every time and exciting subjects. This painting of a desert in the southwest shows how the sunset creates back lighting and casts the cactuses in silhouette. First, I chose one cactus to be the main character and decided where I wanted it in t