Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. My Taos, New Mexico Watercolor Workshop was so much fun that I decided to include another of my morning demo's. This was painted at a friend's house near the Mable Dodge Luhan House where we were headquartered for the workshop. It was a beautiful sunny morning and I wanted to keep the demo short so that everyone would have more time to paint. As usual, what seemed like a simple idea really wasn't and I found this out when I started. I

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I just spent the last week teaching a Watercolor Workshop in Taos New Mexico and this was one of my demo's of the Mabel Dodge Luhan House where we were headquartered. It was a beautiful morning with sunlight and shadow showing off the rich colors of the adobe building and the cottonwood tree. I started with a cerulean blue wash for the sky and painted right over my drawing of the trees. This way I could leave bits of the sky showing t

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I decided to send out flowers for Mother's Day. This is a painting I did in a friend's garden in Taos, New Mexico. Rod had an enormous garden which was the envy of all the gardeners in Taos and this was one little spot near his studio. I was attracted to the tall blue flowers that were a stunning backdrop for the white daisies. I started with the big white daisy near the center leaving unpainted white paper and framed it with cerulean

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. It has been a few years since I painted a portrait so I decided to use myself as a model. I put on all my favorite things for plein air painting, Levi jacket, red plaid shirt, and Panama hat. I had a friend take some pictures of me in my front yard so that I would be in the sunlight and I used those for reference. The drawing took forever as I sight measured my features and the patterns on the shirt and jacket. I actually left most of