Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. In the Outdoor Historical Museum where we paint in my sketchbook workshop, there are lots of antique "props" and I couldn't resist painting this handsome old cart. I don't know why the wheels were painted yellow but it definitely made for a more interesting watercolor. In my preliminary pencil sketch, I placed the cart in the middle of the composition so that the yellow wheel, the focal point, would be off center and close to the bott

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. In my sketchbook workshop, one of the places we paint is an Outdoor Museum which is a wonderful setup with barns, farmhouse, working blacksmith, farm animals, windmill, old school house, log cabin, and a museum filled with historical implements and photo's showing how the pioneers lived. I painted this behind the farmhouse where the vegetable garden spilled over into a flower garden. I encouraged the other artists to focus in on one t

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I have always loved painting sunflowers and I have even done some in watercolor that are 40 x 60 inches. This is a small painting that I did on location in Washington Park here in Denver during one of my weekend workshops. I started by drawing the big sunflower then added five smaller ones in an interesting arrangement. Rather than exactly copying the flowers as I saw them I arranged them to suit myself. I then added a few buds but di

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. It was another hot day in Denver so we stayed in the shade at Hudson Gardens and painted in their rose garden. I enjoy demonstrating for the other artists and explaining my painting as it develops. My favorite part is when they ask questions because I often learn as much as they do. I started by explaining that this time I chose one flower and placed it in the upper right corner of my watercolor paper. This focused my attention as I l