Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is a painting I did a few years ago at my friend Rod Goebel's hacienda and studio in Taos, New Mexico. When I look at it now I am reminded of the song by Gershwin in the Porgy and Bess Opera. It starts out "Summer time and the livin' is easy." That is exactly what I think of when I look at this watercolor. It was a special time in my life when I could visit my friend in Taos and paint in his magnificent garden. Rod planned his ga

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. This is another painting from my June Weekend Gardens Workshop. We had painted in the morning and then stopped for lunch at the cafe. Our paintings were discussed then we looked for a place to paint in the afternoon. With only a little over an hour left we settled next to a garden with these little flowers. They were poking up out of dark planting soil and I knew that later in the summer they would be covering all the dirt. I wasn't

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I just finished the first of my Summer Weekend Garden Workshops and this was one of my demo's. It was a beautiful sunny morning with no wind and we set up our painting gear in the rose garden where I was attracted to the gorgeous yellow roses in all different stages of development. After a preliminary pencil drawing I started painting the yellow bud in the center of the three buds. Transparent yellow and yellow ochre were used and for