Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I am teaching an Online Zoom class, "Painting Cafes In Watercolor," that starts October 5th at the Art Students League of Denver. It is a four week class that meets on Tuesdays from 1-3:30 and there is still room to signup. This is a painting of the Market Cafe in Larimar Square in Downtown Denver and sadly, after a long history, it closed during the pandemic. It was always one of my favorite places to have a cup of hot chocolate and

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I enjoy teaching private lessons with the one-on-one experience and this is a painting from one of those lessons. My friend brought a photo of her flower garden and we worked on it together. This is my finished painting and it gives me the opportunity to talk about a few things - the first of which is painting rocks. These are "river rocks" which indicates they have been in moving water for a long time and that has smoothed the rough

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. On my walk this morning I noticed that some of the leaves in Denver are already turning gold, a sure sign that Autumn is here. My thoughts went to Steamboat Springs and the other mountain towns where the air is crisp and the aspen trees are turning gold. Fall is my favorite time of year in Colorado and this is a painting I did on a friend's ranch last year in Steamboat Springs. Aspen trees at first glance seem to be all white but, as

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. In the watercolor classes that I teach at the Art Students League of Denver, I am always doing demonstrations and this is one that I painted for an Introduction To Painting In Watercolor. We had done color charts, value scales, worked with hard and soft edges, brushwork, and had moved on to painting a few simple objects. I did this in about 10-15 minutes and I decided to use it in todays email to emphasize that artists should paint ev